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This 5 page essay looks at how tone and biographer's assumptions disappoint some readers of Bourneman's Biography of James K. Polk. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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admiration of James Polk is clear in the title of his book and this theme runs throughout the biographical narrative. Bourneman writes as if this politician single-handedly won the hearts
of all the people of the nation and the hearts of everyone he ever met, except his political foes. Even there, the gentlemanly nature of Polk shines through in tone
of this biography. For this reason, it is difficult to accept without a doubt the authors assessment of the eleventh president or even whether "the truth lies somewhere in between"
in this biography (182). Background Polk transformed the country, but he did so without any consideration or diplomacy. It is easy to
imagine that he was acting according to his constituents desires. It is easy to imagine that he did the right thing for the nation in the long run, and all
within his four years in office since he had already given up his second term of office. However, Bourneman makes a number
of assumptions about his audience. He writes in a sophisticated style so that the reader almost passes over important, but missing, facts. One example is Polks executive involvement with Fremont,
Gillespie and Larkin in California just prior to the war. The story is blurred by moving in and out of other stories that occurred as if in Polks journal. In
several important spots the war story seems to be interrupted or oddly mixed with Fletchers railroads. Fletchers contribution to the war decision remains unclear in this passage, as if it
is a secret from the reader as well. Smooth Character, Biographers Voice Part of the
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