A country of vast designs

Description:

In a one-term presidency, Polk completed the story of America's Manifest Destiny -- extending its territory across the continent, from sea to sea, by threatening England and manufacturing a controversial and unpopular two-year war with Mexico that Abraham Lincoln, in Congress at the time, opposed as preemptive. Robert Merry tells this story through powerful debates and towering figures. - Jacket flap.

subjects: Politics and government,  Presidents,  Territorial expansion,  Biography,  History,  New York Times reviewed,  Polk, james k. (james knox), 1795-1849,  Mexican war, 1846-1848,  United states, politics and government, 1815-1861,  United states, territorial expansion

People: James K. Polk (1795-1849)

Places: United States

Times: 1845-1849,  19th century