Internet Biography of Andrew Jackson

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Essential, medium-length biography of Andrew Jackson, who led the most exciting life of any American President. After fighting as a child in the Revolutionary War, young Andrew Jackson became a violence-prone playboy and gambler. Moving to Tennessee endowed with an appointment to a lucrative job as a federal lawyer and later as a judge, he built a fortune around gambling, slavery, and working both sides of the law. Becoming a militia leader, he won victories over American Indian tribes and the British army at New Orleans.

Seeing the danger to rich slave masters like himself stemming from extending the right to vote to all white males, Jackson set about making himself the leader of poor white male voters. His organization became the Democratic Party.

As President, Andrew Jackson surprised his detractors by not getting the U.S. involved in a war. He killed the Bank of the United States and plunged the nation into a deep Depression by insisting on a hard-currency (gold and silver) standard. The issue of the rights of states vs. the power of the Federal government almost led to a civil war with South Carolina. Free trade vs. taxes on imports to protect American manufacturing companies was also a big controversy of those times.

Relieved of the tedium of longer treatments, the full color of the Andrew Jackson story comes alive in this shocking biography.

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Essential, medium-length biography of Andrew Jackson, who led the most exciting life of any American President. After fighting as a child in the Revolutionary War, young Andrew Jackson became a violence-prone playboy and gambler. Moving to Tennessee endowed with an appointment to a lucrative job as a federal lawyer and later as a judge, he built a fortune around gambling, slavery, and working both sides of the law. Becoming a militia leader, he won victories over American Indian tribes and the British army at New Orleans.

Seeing the danger to rich slave masters like himself stemming from extending the right to vote to all white males, Jackson set about making himself the leader of poor white male voters. His organization became the Democratic Party.

As President, Andrew Jackson surprised his detractors by not getting the U.S. involved in a war. He killed the Bank of the United States and plunged the nation into a deep Depression by insisting on a hard-currency (gold and silver) standard. The issue of the rights of states vs. the power of the Federal government almost led to a civil war with South Carolina. Free trade vs. taxes on imports to protect American manufacturing companies was also a big controversy of those times.

Relieved of the tedium of longer treatments, the full color of the Andrew Jackson story comes alive in this shocking biography.

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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

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Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson’s election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad. To tell the saga of Jackson’s presidency, acclaimed author Jon Meacham goes inside the Jackson White House. Drawing on newly discovered family letters and papers, he details the human drama–the family, the women, and the inner circle of advisers–that shaped Jackson’s private world through years of storm and victory.

One of our most significant yet dimly recalled presidents, Jackson was a battle-hardened warrior, the founder of the Democratic Party, and the architect of the presidency as we know it. His story is one of violence, sex, courage, and tragedy. With his powerful persona, his evident bravery, and his mystical connection to the people, Jackson moved the White House from the periphery of government to the center of national action, articulating a vision of change that challenged entrenched interests to heed the popular will–or face his formidable wrath. The greatest of the presidents who have followed Jackson in the White House–from Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to FDR to Truman–have found inspiration in his example, and virtue in his vision.

Jackson was the most contradictory of men. The architect of the removal of Indians from their native lands, he was warmly sentimental and risked everything to give more power to ordinary citizens. He was, in short, a lot like his country: alternately kind and vicious, brilliant and blind; and a man who fought a lifelong war to keep the republic safe–no matter what it took.

Jon Meacham in American Lion has delivered the definitive human portrait of a pivotal president who forever changed the American presidency–and America itself.


From the Hardcover edition.

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The Story of Andrew Jackson for Young Readers

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Originally published in 1898 as part of the author’s larger “Four American Patriots,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 60 pages, recounts, in simple language for young readers, the story of “Old Hickory,” who fought in the War of 1812 and became the seventh President of the United States.

CONTENTS
I. Birth
II. Boyhood
III. The Young Prisoner of War
IV. The Lawyer
V. The District Attorney
VI. The Congressman
VII. Storekeeper, Judge, and Planter
VIII. “Old Hickory”
IX. The Creek War
X. The Battle of New Orleans
XI. Governor of Florida
XII. The Hermitage
XIII. President of the United States
XIV. Death at the Hermitage

SAMPLE PASSAGE:
The members of Congress from the South gave a great banquet, to which they invited President Jackson. He heard some of the guests say that if Congress would not change the tariff law, the states that did not like the law might withdraw from the Union. What did that mean? Jackson knew very well that it meant that our country should be divided into many little republics instead of being one great republic, as George Washington and others had intended when they signed the Constitution of the United States.

When the time came to make speeches, the President rose to offer a toast. All leaned eagerly forward. They thought he would say something against the tariff. But the Man of the Iron Will looked down the long lines of brilliant men and exclaimed: “Our Federal Union, it must be preserved!” These words caused much dismay among the guests. They saw that the President would oppose any attempt to secede from the Union.

About the Author:
Alma Holman Burton was the author of numerous books on history for young readers, including “The Story of Our Country,” “The Builders of Our Nation,” and “The Story of the Indians of New England.”

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Originally published in 1898 as part of the author’s larger “Four American Patriots,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 60 pages, recounts, in simple language for young readers, the story of “Old Hickory,” who fought in the War of 1812 and became the seventh President of the United States.

CONTENTS
I. Birth
II. Boyhood
III. The Young Prisoner of War
IV. The Lawyer
V. The District Attorney
VI. The Congressman
VII. Storekeeper, Judge, and Planter
VIII. “Old Hickory”
IX. The Creek War
X. The Battle of New Orleans
XI. Governor of Florida
XII. The Hermitage
XIII. President of the United States
XIV. Death at the Hermitage

SAMPLE PASSAGE:
The members of Congress from the South gave a great banquet, to which they invited President Jackson. He heard some of the guests say that if Congress would not change the tariff law, the states that did not like the law might withdraw from the Union. What did that mean? Jackson knew very well that it meant that our country should be divided into many little republics instead of being one great republic, as George Washington and others had intended when they signed the Constitution of the United States.

When the time came to make speeches, the President rose to offer a toast. All leaned eagerly forward. They thought he would say something against the tariff. But the Man of the Iron Will looked down the long lines of brilliant men and exclaimed: “Our Federal Union, it must be preserved!” These words caused much dismay among the guests. They saw that the President would oppose any attempt to secede from the Union.

About the Author:
Alma Holman Burton was the author of numerous books on history for young readers, including “The Story of Our Country,” “The Builders of Our Nation,” and “The Story of the Indians of New England.”

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Andrew Jackson

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Andrew Jackson

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By "the foremost Jacksonian scholar of our time" (New York Times), the critically acclaimed and most concise biography of Andrew Jackson that takes a comprehensive look at the political, personal, and military life of the seventh president of the United States.

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This brief biography focuses more on the political career of Andrew Jackson than on his military heroism at the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. It nevertheless provides an overview of the martial events that made Jackson's rise to the presidency possible. Robert Remini is widely touted as one of the great historians of the Jacksonian era, and Andrew Jackson is his most accessible book on the period's most intriguing figure.

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The Reign of Andrew Jackson

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The Reign of Andrew Jackson is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Frederic Austin Ogg is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Frederic Austin Ogg then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

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