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James K. Polk and His Time - Essays at the Conclusion of the Polk Project (Hardcover)
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James K. Polk and His Time - Essays at the Conclusion of the Polk Project (Hardcover)
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This collection arose out of a 2019 conference to commemorate the
completion of the fourteen- volume Correspondence of James K. Polk.
Its scholarship—which pays tribute to the Polk Project itself, as
well as to the controversial nature of the Polk legacy—will
result in a significant reinterpretation of the eleventh US
president. Contributors include John F. Polk, who examines the ways
history has mischaracterized almost the entire Polk family tree,
and Kelly Houston Jones, who investigates the family’s
investments in slave-based agriculture. The fascinating life of
Elias Polk, a man enslaved by the president, is compellingly
related by Zacharie W. Kinslow. Asaf Almog analyzes the persistence
of labels: Polk and fellow Democrats labeled their Whig opponents
“Federalists,” he argues, with both rhetorical and substantive
aims. Michael Gunther analyzes Polk’s authorization of the
Smithsonian Institution and the Department of the Interior,
seemingly at odds with his devotion to small government. Taken
together, the twelve essays unveil a more complex James K. Polk
than the narrowly focused Jackson protégé and proponent of
Manifest Destiny we often hear about. He was politically partisan
but inspired by history and grounded in principle. His family’s
long reliance on nonwhite Americans’ losses of freedom and land
informed his policies on slavery and Indian removal, and the nature
of the legislation at hand determined when he promoted a larger or
a smaller federal government.
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