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Jan 16, 2014 · For this reason, Borneman’s biography is probably the best of the group for someone less familiar with the social and political environment in the 1840s. It was also my favorite biography of the bunch, though not by a wide margin. (Full review here) –. Last I read Sam Haynes’s “ James K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse.”.
Mar 11, 2022 · James K. Polk: A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny by Thomas M. Leonard. When he was elected President in 1845, James K. Polk was only 49 years old – at that time the youngest president ever to be elected. He faced a conflicted nation on the verge of tremendous territorial expansion. This book analyzes Polk’s political career and his role in ...
Random House, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 422 pages. In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he plotted and attained a formidable ...
- Walter R. Borneman
- Random House, 2008
- illustrated
Apr 8, 2020 · In tracing Polk's life and career, author Borneman dispels conventional views of Polk as an accidental president. Instead, we see Polk as he was--a decisive, if not partisan, statesman whose near doubling of America's boundaries and expansive broadening of executive powers redefined the country at large, as well as the nature of its highest office.--From publisher description
Jan 12, 2014 · I really enjoyed this book. I was only slightly familiar with Polk at the time I read the book, and didn’t really know much about the period between J. Q. Adams and Lincoln – so I really appreciated that the author did spend a decent amount of time talking about Jackson’s presidency and the culture/government of the time.
Apr 8, 2008 · Finished the book. A really good read. I learned much about the time period and about Polk himself. I appreciated the author's approach of neither vilifying or glorifying Polk, but rather presenting two sides. I have come to admire what Polk stood for and accomplished as a president and realize that he was a product of his times also.
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Apr 14, 2009 · In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he plotted and attained a formidable agenda: He fought for and won tariff reductions, reestablished an independent Treasury, and, most notably ...
