James K. Polk and His Time - 9781621907336

James K. Polk and His TimeEssays at the Conclusion of the Polk Project\nAuthor(s): Michael David Cohen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Tennessee Press, United States\nImprint: University of Tennessee Press\nISBN-13: 9781621907336, 978-1621907336\nSynopsis\nThis collection arose out of a 2019 conference to commemorate the completion of the fourteen- volume Correspondence of James K. Polk. Its scholarshipwhich pays tribute to the Polk Project itself, as well as to the controversial nature of the Polk legacywill result in a significant reinterpretation of the eleventh US president.\n\nContributors include John F. Polk, who examines the ways history has mischaracterized almost the entire Polk family tree, and Kelly Houston Jones, who investigates the familys 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 D.