# Ep. 58: Polk - What a Horrible President! **URL:** **By** Anthony Comegna **Published:** June 12, 2018 --- In the grand catalog of 19th century America, there are few villains so worthy of a libertarian's scorn, as James K Polk. In the grand catalog of 19th century America, there are few villains so worthy of a libertarian's scorn, as James K Polk. The Jacksonian period was one flush with eager upstarts, middling men who hit it big with cunning and peculiar talents. Polk, too, was one of these eager, young, upstart Americans. ## Further Reading: [Frances Whipple, ed. Liberty Chimes. Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society of Providence. 1845.](https://archive.org/details/libertychimes00unkngoog) May, Robert. Manifest Destiny’s Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Morrison, Michael. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1997. Sellers, Charles. James K. Polk, Jacksonian: 1795-1845. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1957. James K. Polk, Continentalist: 1843-1846. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1966. Music by Kai Engel