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Format:
Book
Title:
Zachary Taylor
ISBN:
9780805082371
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Times Books, ©2008.
Physical Description:
xx, 167 pages : maps, portrait ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Early career -- Unsung hero -- "Old rough and ready" -- Fort Jesup to the Rio Grande -- War with Mexico! -- Monterrey -- Buena Vista -- The election of 1848 -- Inauguration and early days in the White House -- California and New Mexico -- Foreign affairs -- The great debate -- The death of the president.
Summary:
A profile of the twelfth president traces his rise in the military and successes in the Mexican War to his election as the first president without a prior political office, in an account that also offers insight into Taylor's views on slavery and his sudden death.
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