Andrew Jackson

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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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In the tradition (and unified format) of previous entries in this fine series, this bibliography of the seventh president (1829-1837) itemizes and annotates primary resources including government documents and manuscript collections, monographs, articles, chapters and essays, and dissertations and theses. It also includes a most useful 11-page chronology of events in the life of Jackson (1767-1845), as well as detailed author and subject indexes. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.


Library Journal
"The best biography of Andrew Jackson available."



"In this concise and well-written biography Robert V. Remini has a more ambitious objective than merely recounting the life of a famous man.He portrays the President not as a symbol of the age nor a personification of proletarian striving, but as a shrewd and able politician, a pioneer in using the office of the presidency for both national and narrowly partisan purposes.His account is persuasive and well documented."



"Remini, an old hand at unraveling the politics of this era, writes with assurance and cuts through hoary legends.A stimulating reassessment."


Choice
"Remini, an old hand at unraveling the politics of this era, writes with assurance and cuts through hoary legends.A stimulating reassessment."


Political Science Quarterly
"Persuasive and well documented."


Book Description
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 our seventh president.


About the Author
Robert V. Remini is Professor of History and Research Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of many books, including a definitive three-volume Andrew Jackson biography for which he won the National Book Award.


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Robert V. Remini is Professor of History and Research Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of many books, including a definitive three-volume Andrew Jackson biography for which he won the National Book Award.


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