The Best Biographies of James Polk

January 16, 2014

Historians generally regard James Polk as one of the “near-great” presidents, ranking him just behind Eisenhower, Truman and Polk’s mentor …

Review of “James K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse” by Sam Haynes

January 14, 2014

“James K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse” is Sam Haynes’s 1996 biography of our eleventh president. He is also the …

January 3, 2014

James K. Polk of Tennessee was elected the eleventh president of the United States in 1844. Somewhere in the back …