Sellers James K. Polk, Vol 1. Jacksonian

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7788-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 550 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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 with a sure hand, bringing 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. One feature of the work is the light it throws on the relation between national politics and those in Tennessee.

Originally published in 1957.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Sellers, Charles Grier

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politikerbiographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Preface, pg. vii
Contents, pg. xi
Illustrations, pg. xiii
I. Old Mecklenburg, pg. 1
II. Growing Up with the West, pg. 33
III. The Politics of Democracy, pg. 66
IV. The Factious Opposition, pg. 100
V. Defining Democratic Republicanism, pg. 135
VI. The Democracy and the Money Power, pg. 168
VII. “Polk Deserves a Medal”, pg. 196
VIII. Polk versus Bell, pg. 234
IX. Tennessee Deserts Jackson, pg. 267
X. Mr. Speaker Polk, pg. 304
XI. Tennessee Redeemed, pg. 341
XII. The Governorship–and Higher Stakes, pg. 378
XIII. Frustration, pg. 419
XIV. Finis?, pg. 458
Sources, pg. 493
Index, pg. 511