Show Notes
Professor Amy Greenberg is the George Winfree Professor of History and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of numerous books including A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico and Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation:
Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
James K. Polk, Vol. 1: Jacksonian, 1795-1843
James K. Polk, Volume II: Continentalist, 1843-1846
Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
Met His Every Goal? James K. Polk and the Legends of Manifest Destiny
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Professor Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books including Henry Kissinger and the American Century, The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office and many other excellent works. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:
Note: This episode was recorded on March 3, 2022 so any reference to political events are from that time.
Professor Sargent is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, where he holds a dual appointment with the history department and the Goldman School of Public Policy. Professor Sargent is the author of the brilliant A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:
Professor Lawrence is the Director of the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, as well an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author and editor of numerous books including The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, and The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era which is the subject of our conversation this week. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:
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