James K. Polk, Vol 1. Jacksonian

by Charles Grier Sellers

Book Overview

This full account is of Polk's important pre-presidential career. Since Polk was immersed in so many of the major political developments of his day-the rise of popular democracy, the conflicts over the national bank and other crucial issues of Jackson's administrations, and after 1835 the fateful emergence of sectional animosities-his biography is also a history of his generation's political experience. Professor Sellers has combined the elements...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691045194
• ISBN13: 9780691045191
• Release Date: March 1957
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.