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Name: Polk

Full title: Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
Author: Walter R. Borneman
Year: 2008
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Genres/categories: Award winners, Biographies, History, Non Fiction

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Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Biography in 2009.

Biography. In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment.
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