Manifest Destiny is the second album by The Dictators and their first after switching to the Asylum label. Trouser Press praised the album as "another helping of brilliant Shernoff originals".
Track listing
Personnel
The Dictators
Handsome Dick Manitoba – lead vocals
Ross "The Boss" Friedman – lead guitar, 12-string guitar
Scott "Top Ten" Kempner – rhythm guitar
Andy Shernoff – keyboards, lead and backing vocals
Mark "The Animal" Mendoza – bass guitar
Richie Teeter – drums, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Sleeping with the TV On" and "Hey Boys"
Additional musicians
Petronius Wood – additional keyboards
Production
Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman – producers
John Jansen – engineer
Andy Abrams, Corky Stasiak, Gray Russell, Jay Krugman, Rod O'Brien, Thom Panunzio – assistant engineers Steve L. Schenck – production coordinator Anne Garner, Roni Hoffman, Veronica Drew Ink - art direction, design Eric Meola - photography