Robert Merry, president and publisher of Congressional Quarterly, discusses the pivotal presidency of James K. Polk. When he left office, the country had grown by more than a third, stretching across the continent to the Pacific. A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent, illuminates these crucial years in U.S. history, and the mounting tensions that would lead to the Civil War.
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Comments [4]
My mother-in-law has in her posession a document signed by President Van Bueren. It is framed and displayed in the entrance hallway of her apartment.
It sounds like your guest has written a book that deals with many of issues in the antebellum era.
I would like to recommend Daniel Walker Howe's What Hath God Wrought , which thoroughly debunks the conventional view of this era. Check it out!
What does "gin it up" mean?
Did he just say, "I'd eat his sausage?"
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