ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano - POLK, James K.

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The Diary of James K. Polk during his Presidency 1845-1849. First edition, from the library of FDR, with his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper of the first volume, "Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hyde Park", beneath the presentation inscription from his favourite uncle Frederic Adrian Delano Roosevelt: "Frederic A. Delano acquired at Chicago in 1910 - Taken to Algonac in 1918 - given to The President July 27 / 41".Frederic - his Algonac bookplate is to the front pastedown facing the inscriptions - was an opinionated, Harvard-educated, ex-railroad strike-breaker and manager turned public servant. Franklin formed a close friendship with his uncle as a boy, and later as president appointed him chairman of the National Resources Planning Board, a position he held for ten years.The diary of the 11th US president, James K. Polk, was the first presidential diary to be published, and contains extensive details of Polk's stewardship of the nation in the Mexican-American War. In his first annual message to Congress, James Polk reiterated the Monroe Doctrine against European interference on the North American continent. During the dispute with Mexico following the annexation of Texas, he took decisive action, advancing US forces into discordant territory. When Mexican troops struck back, the Jacksonian Democrat used that incident as justification for asking Congress to declare war, over the opposition of his Whig opponents. When Roosevelt received his book in the summer of 19

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