Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-293) and index.
Contents
Progress and paradox -- The price of conquest -- Old Rough and Ready -- The achiever -- The administration -- The statesman -- The crisis -- An undeserved albatross: the Galphin dilemma -- The Omnibus Bill -- The new president -- The compromise -- The nation's leader -- Manifest destiny-- with limits -- The death of a party -- The aftermath -- In retrospect.