James K. Polk and the Expansionist ImpulsePearson Longman, 2006 - 242페이지 This biography explores the controversies, triumphs, and failures of the presidency of James K. Polk. Sam W. Haynes places Polk's expansionist agenda in both political and social contexts and examines the nature and origins of the expansionist impulse.
Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each of the titles in the Library of American Biography series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American History and national life. In addition, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times. This text incorporates the latest scholarship and draws upon the longer, far more extensive studies of Polk's life and times, but makes the story accessible to students in both survey and upper division courses in American history. |
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... favored a hard money policy , with gold and silver coin as the nation's principal medium of exchange . Jackson's anti - bank views stemmed from a sense of anxiety , shared by Polk and many Americans , about a rapidly expanding ...
... favored rejection of the treaty on the grounds that it did not give the United States a large enough territorial indemnity . Polk himself believed that the United States was entitled to a larger chunk of Mexico's domain , but he was ...
... favored sending an entirely new commission to negotiate a peace with Mexico . But in the end , many senators on both sides of the territorial issue seem to have come to the conclusion that the terms of the treaty , however unpalatable ...