Summary
A thought-provoking study of Andrew Jackson chronicles the life and career of a self-made man who went on to become a military hero and seventh president of the United States, critically analyzing Jackson's seminal role during a turbulent era in history, the political crises and personal upheaval th... Full description
- The love of country, fame and honor: beginnings to late 1830
- Andy will fight his way in the world
- Follow me and I'll save you yet
- A marriage, a defeat, and a victory
- You know best, my dear
- Ladies' wars are always fierce and hot
- A busybody Presbyterian clergyman
- My white and red children
- Major Eaton has spoken of resigning
- An opinion of the President alone
- Liberty and union, now and forever
- General Jackson rules by his personal popularity
- I will die with the Union: late 1830 to 1834
- I have been left to sup alone
- A mean and scurvy piece of business
- Now let him enforce it
- The fury of a chained panther
- Hurra for the hickory tree!
- A dreadful crisis of excitement and violence
- The mad project of disunion
- We are threatened to have our throats cut
- Great is the stake placed in our hands
- My mind is made up
- He appeared to feel as a father
- The people, sir, are with me
- We are in the midst of a revolution
- The evening of his days: 1834 to the end
- So you want war
- A dark, lawless, and insatiable ambition!
- There is a rank due to the United States among nations
- The wretched victim of a dreadful delusion
- How would you like to be a slave?
- The strife about the next Presidency
- Not one would have ever got out alive
- I fear Emily will not recover
- The President will go out triumphantly
- The shock is great, and grief universal.