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"This multiauthor volume arose out of an April 2019 James K. Polk conference, sponsored by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's History Department and meant, in part, to commemorate the concluded Polk Papers project. The twelve chapters, all relying on primary research found in the fourteen-volume Correspondence of James K. Polk, provide a range of topics that will result in a significant reinterpretation of this controversial president. Among the many issues discussed are Polk's genealogy, his family's views on slavery, his ruptured relationship with Martin Van Buren, the influence of the…mehr

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"This multiauthor volume arose out of an April 2019 James K. Polk conference, sponsored by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's History Department and meant, in part, to commemorate the concluded Polk Papers project. The twelve chapters, all relying on primary research found in the fourteen-volume Correspondence of James K. Polk, provide a range of topics that will result in a significant reinterpretation of this controversial president. Among the many issues discussed are Polk's genealogy, his family's views on slavery, his ruptured relationship with Martin Van Buren, the influence of the Jacksonian religion on his thinking, and new perspectives on the Mexican War"--
Autorenporträt
MICHAEL DAVID COHEN is a research professor and a faculty fellow at American University. He edited three volumes of the Correspondence of James K. Polk and is the author of Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War.