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Biography

Donald A. Rakestraw is Georgia Southern University and Winthrop University Professor of History Emeritus. Among his publications are For Honor or Destiny: The Anglo-American Crisis over the Oregon Territory; a Choice Academic Book of the Year for 1997, Prologue to Manifest Destiny: Anglo-American Relations in the 1840s (with Howard Jones); and, most recently, Daniel Webster: Defender of Peace.
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