Andrew Jackson: His Life and TimesNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The First American comes the first major single-volume biography in a decade of the president who defined American democracy • "A big, rich biography.” —The Boston Globe H. W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he ushered in. An orphan at a young age and without formal education or the family lineage of the Founding Fathers, Jackson showed that the presidency was not the exclusive province 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 rise from his hardscrabble roots to his days as frontier lawyer, then on to his heroic victory in the Battle of New Orleans, and finally to the White House. Capturing Jackson’s outsized life and deep impact on American history, Brands also explores his controversial actions, from his unapologetic expansionism to the disgraceful Trail of Tears. Look for H.W. Brands's other biographies: THE FIRST AMERICAN (Benjamin Franklin), THE MAN WHO SAVED THE UNION (Ulysses S. Grant), TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS (Franklin Roosevelt) and REAGAN. |
Contents
| 3 | |
| 9 | |
Alone | 29 |
Away West | 42 |
Shadowed Love | 56 |
Republicans and Revolutionaries | 66 |
Fighting Words | 83 |
Rendering Judgment | 96 |
Party and Politics | 312 |
Judge and Executioner | 322 |
The Eye of the Storm | 332 |
Conquistador | 342 |
37 | 363 |
The Death Rattle of the Old Regime | 376 |
Democracy Triumphant | 389 |
Democracy Rampant | 406 |
SON OF THE WEST 18051814 | 113 |
to Affair of Honor | 129 |
All Must Feel the Injuries | 139 |
Master and Slaves | 147 |
Nor Infamy upon US | 154 |
Native Genius | 164 |
Old Hickory | 174 |
Sharp Knife | 198 |
The River of Blood | 205 |
AMERICAN HERO 18141821 | 225 |
The Spanish Front | 236 |
Pirates and Patriots | 249 |
Day of Deliverance | 263 |
The Second Washington | 284 |
East by Southwest | 300 |
Spoils of Pictory | 414 |
Tools of Wickedness 42ſ | 421 |
Jacksonian Theory | 439 |
Attack and Counterattack | 455 |
Or Die with the Union | 472 |
Justice Marshall for the Defense | 483 |
Wealth versus Commonwealth | 494 |
4o An Old Friend and a New Frontier | 506 |
371845 | 529 |
To the Ramparis Once More | 553 |
Sources | 567 |
Annotated Bibliography | 598 |
Acknowledgments | 608 |
| 609 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times |
| Author | H. W. Brands |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0307278549, 9780307278548 |
| Length | 656 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State History / United States / 19th Century |
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