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After winning the US presidency in 1845, according to the oft-repeated anecdote, James K. Polk slapped his thigh and predicted what would be the "four great measures” of his administration: the acquisition the Oregon Country, the acquisition of California, a reduction in tariffs, and the establishment of an independent treasury. In this eye-opening study, Tom Chaffin dispatches the thigh-slap anecdote and other misconceptions associated with Polk. In the process, he demonstrates how the "four measures” story has skewed our understanding of Polk.

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After winning the US presidency in 1845, according to the oft-repeated anecdote, James K. Polk slapped his thigh and predicted what would be the "four great measures” of his administration: the acquisition the Oregon Country, the acquisition of California, a reduction in tariffs, and the establishment of an independent treasury. In this eye-opening study, Tom Chaffin dispatches the thigh-slap anecdote and other misconceptions associated with Polk. In the process, he demonstrates how the "four measures” story has skewed our understanding of Polk.
Autorenporträt
Tom Chaffin is research professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for which he directs and edits the multi-volume series Correspondence of James K. Polk. He lives in Atlanta and is the author of, among other books, Giant's Causeway: Frederick Douglass's Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary, Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of Empire, and Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah.