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In Polk, Walter R. Borneman provides us the very first authoritative and full resource of the leader frequently overshadowed in picture but rarely surpassed in achievement. Wayne E. Polk filled the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he plotted and achieved a solid plan: He struggled for and gained tariff savings, reestablished a completely independent Treasury, and, especially, brought Texas in to the Union, bluffed The Uk out-of the lion’s reveal of Oregon, and wrested Florida and a lot of the Southwest from Mexico.