Tales From The Lands Of Nuts And Grapes: Spanish And Portuguese Folklore (1888)

Literature & Fiction

Sellers, Professor of History Charles

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

<p>This is Volume One of the first new study in a generation of America's most underrated president and a full account of Polk's pre-presidential career.Since Polk was immersed in so many of the major political developments of the day -- the rise of popular democracy, the conflicts over the national bank and other crucial issues of Jackson's administrations -- his biography is also a history of his generation's political experience. With a sure hand Professor Sellers brings out Polk's character -- his ambition, his determination, his faith in the electorate -- and the nature of his friends, his enemies, and the times in which he moved.Polk began his career in the Tennessee legislature, served seven terms in the national House of Representatives (two as speaker), and then won the governorship of Tennessee as a stepping stone to the vice presidency and ultimately, he dared hope, the presidency. By portraying in absorbing detail the complex of motives and ambitions from which the major events in Tennessee and Washington were woven during these years, the author has given real life to the historian's generalizations about the Jacksonian epoch.</p>

James K. Polk: Jacksonian, 1795-1843, Volume 1

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

ACLS History E-Book Project

<p>Writing in the Saturday Review, Charles M. Wiltse described the first volume of James K. Polk as "at once an important contribution to American political history, a fascinating study of the interaction of state and national policies, and an illuminating delineation of the pre-Presidential career of one of our least-known Presidents." This new volume of Professor Sellers' biography begins in 1843, when Polk had just suffered his second defeat for re-election to the governorship of Tennessee. From this low point Polk looked forward to the Democratic nominating convention of 1844, where he ardently sought the vice presidential nomination but came out with the presidency instead.The first eighteen months of the Polk administration turned out to be one of the most important periods in the history of the United States. Texas was annexed after a ten-year period of independence, the thirty-year dispute with Great Britain over Oregon was settled, and the war with Mexico that was shortly to result in the annexation of California and the Southwest was begun. These months also included the first session of twenty-ninth Congress, which did more in the way of important domestic legislation than any other Congress of the nineteenth century.</p>

James K. Polk, Vol. 2: Continentalist, 1843-1846

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