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"""Adding the Lone Star is an impeccably researched and marvelously readable account of the US annexation of Texas, told from the perspectives of Texas president Sam Houston and US president John Tyler. Focusing in a systematic fashion on these two presidents and the decisions they made, Jordan Cash not only contributes to a better understanding of Texas annexation but also generates insights regarding executive power.""--John J. Dinan, author of The American State Constitutional Tradition ""In Adding the Lone Star, Jordan Cash presents a compelling and original way to assess the annexation of Texas. Through an examination of the two presidents at the heart of the story--John Tyler of the United States and Sam Houston of the Republic of Texas--Cash's comparative approach allows him to offer fresh insights about executive authority, presidential behavior, and geopolitics, all while demonstrating the importance of annexation to the sectional crisis in the United States that ultimately led to the Civil War.""--Christopher J. Leahy, author of President without a Party: The Life of John Tyler"

""Adding the Lone Star is an impeccably researched and marvelously readable account of the US annexation of Texas, told from the perspectives of Texas president Sam Houston and US president John Tyler. Focusing in a systematic fashion on these two presidents and the decisions they made, Jordan Cash not only contributes to a better understanding of Texas annexation but also generates insights regarding executive power.""—John J. Dinan, author of The American State Constitutional Tradition ""In Adding the Lone Star, Jordan Cash presents a compelling and original way to assess the annexation of Texas. Through an examination of the two presidents at the heart of the story—John Tyler of the United States and Sam Houston of the Republic of Texas—Cash’s comparative approach allows him to offer fresh insights about executive authority, presidential behavior, and geopolitics, all while demonstrating the importance of annexation to the sectional crisis in the United States that ultimately led to the Civil War.""—Christopher J. Leahy, author of President without a Party: The Life of John Tyler

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Jordan T. Cash is assistant professor of political theory and constitutional democracy in the James Madison College at Michigan State University and author of The Isolated Presidency.

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