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224 pages	Andrew Jackson Creator: Robert V. Remini, Wesley K. Clark \| Biography & Autobiography - 2009-09-29 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
About this book Andrew Jackson is with greatest satisfaction known as the president who created “Jacksonian democracy,” with its focus on manifest lot and laissez-faire economics. But rarely are his accomplishments as a general highlighted. Jackson's effective use of spies in war notwithstanding and of martial law in peace time sparked a debate about the curtailing of civil liberties in the name of national safety that continues to this day. Most of all, Jackson was a great motivator who could, with a few carefully selected words and by his own brave example, turn around ravenous yearning for, deserting troops, convincing them to fight. With dramatic scenes of fierce battles and victories, Remini reveals here why Jackson's valiant leadership as a general led to his election as President of the United States in 1828.

656 pages	Andrew Jackson, His Life and Times Creator: H. W. Brands \| Biography & Autobiography - 2006-10-10 Publisher: Anchor
About this book In this, the first main single-volume biography of Andrew Jackson in decades, H.W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he ushered in. An orphan at a prepubescent age and without formal education or the family lineage of the Founding Fathers, Jackson showed that the Presidency was not the exclusive hinterlands of the wealthy and the well-born but could truly be held by a man of the people. On a majestic, sweeping scale Brands re-creates Jackson’s go up from his hardscrabble roots to his days as frontier lawyer, then on to his heroic victory in the Battle of New Orleans, and for good to the White House. Capturing Jackson’s outsized life and deep impact on American history, Brands also explores his contentious actions, from his unapologetic expansionism to the disgraceful Trail of Tears. This is a thrilling portrait, in full, of the president who defined American democracy.

195 pages	Andrew Jackson Creator: Sean Wilentz \| Biography & Autobiography - 2005-12-27 Publisher: Times Books
About this book The sky-scraping figure who remade American politics--the champion of the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilegeThe Founding Fathers espoused a republican guidance, but they were distrustful of the common people, having designed a constitutional system that would temper popular passions. But as the insurrectionist generation passed from the scene in the 1820s, a new movement, based on the principle of broader democracy, gathered soldiers and united behind Andrew Jackson, the charismatic general who had defeated the British at New Orleans and who embodied the hopes of ordinary Americans. Raising hisvoice against the made-up inequalities fostered by birth, station, monied power, and political privilege, Jackson brought American manipulation into a new age. Sean Wilentz, one of America's leading historians of the nineteenth century, recounts the fiery occupation of this larger-than-life figure, a man whose high ideals were matched in equal measure by his failures and integrity blind spots,...