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Author Kluger, Richard.

Title Seizing destiny : how America grew from sea to shining sea / Richard Kluger.

Imprint New York : Vintage Books, 2008, c2007.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973 K714s 2008    ---  Available
Edition 1st Vintage Books ed.
Description xviii, 649 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Note Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2007.
Summary Chronicles the growth of America and the dynamic individuals who invoked noble principles to justify an aggressive pursuit of a coast-to-coast domain, examining the roles of Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, James Polk, and Teddy Roosevelt.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [609]-624) and index.
Contents An empty sack cannot stand upright (1500-1750) -- The poor Richards arise (1750-1776) -- Thinking large (1776-1782) -- The kings outfoxed (1782-1783) -- Owning the wilderness (1783-1800) -- For a nice little kingdom in Tuscany (1800-1803) -- Everything he does is rapid as lightning (1803) -- From motives of purest patriotism (1803-1823) -- Big drunk wins the day (1821-1836) -- Polking John Bull in the eye (1836-1847) -- The lost virtue of their better days (1846-1850) -- A wolf couldn't make a living on it (1850-1854) -- The great white elephant sale (1854-1867) -- Treachery in the tropics (1869-1902) -- The so-called mandate of mankind (1903-1999).
Subject United States -- Territorial expansion.
United States -- History.
United States -- Foreign relations.
United States -- Territorial expansion.
United States -- History.
United States -- Foreign relations.
ISBN 9780375712982 (pbk.)
0375712984 (pbk.)

 
    
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