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American Lion
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 18.00Andrew 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.... more...
The Petticoat Affair
LSU Press 2000; US$ 20.95In The Petticoat Affair, prize-winning historian John F. Marszalek offers the first in?depth investigation of the earliest?and perhaps greatest?political sex scandal in American history. During Andrew Jackson?s first term in office, Margaret Eaton, the wife of Secretary of State John Henry Eaton, was branded a ?loose woman? for her unconventional public... more...
The Webster-Hayne Debate
University Press of America 2008; US$ 33.99In January 1830, a debate on the nature of sovereignty in the American federal union occurred in the United States Senate between Senators Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Hayne of South Carolina. This debate exposed the critically different understandings of the nature of the American union that, by 1830, had developed between the North... more...
Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants
ABC-CLIO 1997; US$ 147.00Andrew Jackson and those Tennesseans who, along with him, were a major force in Tennessee and American political life can best be understood by examining the political culture they all shared. The ten men studied here were the children or grandchildren of immigrants from either the Scottish lowlands or the north of Ireland. All experienced the rise... more...
Andrew Jackson
Aladdin 2010; US$ 9.99Dear Reader: The Childhood of Famous Americans series, seventy years old in 2002, chronicles the early years of famous American men and women in an accessible manner. Each book is faithful in spirit to the values and experiences that influenced the person's development. History is fleshed out with fictionalized details, and conversations have been... more...
Andrew Jackson
Henry Holt and Co. 2007; US$ 24.99The towering figure who remade American politics?the champion of the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilege The Founding Fathers espoused a republican government, but they were distrustful of the common people, having designed a constitutional system that would temper popular passions. But as the revolutionary generation... more...
The Long, Bitter Trail
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 14.99An account of Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830, which relocated Eastern Indians to the Okalahoma Territory over the Trail of Tears, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs which was given control over their lives. more...
Andrew Jackson
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 9.99Focuses on Andrew Jackson's career including his time as a general in Tennessee and his rise up the Army ranks. With dramatic scenes of fierce battles and victories, Remini reveals here why Jackson's bold leadership as a general led to his election as President of the United States in 1828. more...
Privilege vs. Equality: Civil-Military Relations in the Jacksonian Era, 1815-1845
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 45.00Between 1815-1860, the tiny American army took on many new and often daunting tasks. In the face of civil opposition to the very existence of a professional military, the first battle officers and supporters had to win after 1815 was that of simply preserving some small professional force. As American interests expanded further west and conflict with... more...
The Union at Risk
Oxford University Press, USA 1987; US$ 27.99The Nullification Crisis of 1832-33 is undeniably the most important major event of Andrew Jackson's two presidential terms. Attempting to declare null and void the high tariffs enacted by Congress in the late 1820s, the state of South Carolina declared that it had the right to ignore those national laws that did not suit it. Responding swiftly... more...









