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Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
H.W. Brands
The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson?the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy and set a still young America on its path to greatness?told by the bestselling author of The First American.
Doubleday
October 2005
Featuring: Andrew Jackson
640 pages ISBN: 0385507380 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
The most famous American of his time, Andrew Jackson is a
seminal figure in American history. The first “common man”
to rise to the presidency, Jackson embodied the spirit and
the vision of the emerging American nation; the
term “Jacksonian democracy” is embedded in our national
lexicon. With the sweep, passion, and attention to detail that made
The First American a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a national
bestseller, historian H.W. Brands shapes a historical
narrative that’s as fast-paced and compelling as the best
fiction. He follows Andrew Jackson from his days as
rebellious youth, risking execution to free the Carolinas
of the British during the Revolutionary War, to his years
as a young lawyer and congressman from the newly settled
frontier state of Tennessee. As general of the Tennessee
militia, he put down a massive Indian uprising in the
South, securing the safety of American settlers, and his
famous rout of the British at the Battle of New Orleans
during the War of 1812 made him a national hero. But it is Jackson’s contributions as president, however,
that won him a place in the pantheon of America’s greatest
leaders. A man of the people, without formal education or
the family lineage of the Founding Fathers, he sought as
president to make the country a genuine democracy, governed
by and for the people. Jackson, although respectful of
states’ rights, devoted himself to the preservation of the
Union, whose future in that age was still very much in
question. When South Carolina, his home state, threatened
to secede over the issue of slavery, Jackson promised to
march down with 100,000 federal soldiers should it dare. In the bestselling tradition of Founding Brothers and His
Excellency by Joseph Ellis and of John Adams by David
McCullough, Andrew Jackson is the first single-volume, full-
length biography of Jackson in decades. This magisterial
portrait of one of our greatest leaders promises to reshape
our understanding of both the man and his era and is sure
to be greeted with enthusiasm and acclaim.
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