| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

John L. O'Sullivan and His Times. By Robert D. Sampson. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2003. xvi, 304 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-87338-745-7.)
Though he ranked as one of the pre–Civil War era's most prominent Democrats, the New York editor John L. O'Sullivan long ago became consigned to the status of historical footnote as coiner of the phrase Manifest Destiny. The term first appeared during the summer of 1845 in O'Sullivan's U.S. Magazine and Democratic Review in an article favoring the U.S. annexation of Texas. Capturing that day's expansionist zeal, it quickly entered the language and has been with us ever since.	1
Now, thanks to Robert D. Sampson's robustly eloquent biography—our first full biography of this seminal figure—we now have an O'Sullivan portrait that fleshes out the man behind the footnote.	. . .

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