Andrew
Jackson : The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832
by Robert V. Remini
Paperback - 504 pages Reprint edition Vol 002 (April
1998)
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801859123
Andrew
Jackson and the Bank War : A Study in the Growth of Presidential Power
(Norton Essays in American History.)
Robert Vincent Remini
Paperback / Published 1967
Andrew
Jackson and His Indian Wars
by Robert V. Remini
"I want to assure the reader that it is not my intention to excuse
or exonerate Andrew Jackson for the role he played in the removal of Native
Americans west of the Mississippi River. My purpose is simply to explain
what happened and why" writes Remini, who won the National Book Award for
his three-volume biography of the seventh president.
(Hardcover - July 2001)
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Andrew
Jackson and the New Populism (Henry Steele Commager's American)
William Gutman
Paperback / Published 1987
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The
Age of Jackson
by Arthur Meier, Jr. Schlesinger
This book won the Pulitzer Prize.
Paperback Reissue edition (November 1988)
Little Brown & Co (Pap); ISBN: 0316773433
Andrew
Jackson (United States Presidents)
by Karen Judson
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Library Binding - 112 pages (September 1997)
Enslow Publishers, Inc.; ISBN: 0894908316
Andrew
Jackson : Seventh President of the United States (Encyclopedia
of Presidents)
by Alice Osinski
Reading level: Ages 9-12
School & Library Binding - 100 pages (September 1987)
Children's Press; ISBN: 0516013874
In
Bitterness and in Tears : Andrew Jackson's Destruction of the Creeks and
Seminoles
by Sean Michael O'Brien (Author)
(Hardcover - June 2003)
Jackson's
Way : Andrew Jackson and the People of the Western Waters
by John Buchanan
Inside Flap Copy: Long before he became the seventh president of the
United States, Andrew Jackson waged a bloody campaign to gain lasting American
control of the Old Southwest–the huge territory that stretched from the
Appalachians to the Mississippi and from the Ohio River to the Gulf of
Mexico. Under the Peace of Paris of 1783, most of this vast country had
already been ceded to the United States by Great Britain. But from the
Creeks and the Seminoles to the Choctaws, Chickasaws, and the Cherokees,
the powerful, unconquered tribes who lived there refused to recognize a
scrap of paper written in Paris. The pivotal struggle that ensued over
much of the next three decades would end in an Indian war that would make
Jackson one of the most controversial men in American history.
From John Buchanan, the highly acclaimed author of The Road to Guilford
Courthouse, comes a compulsively readable account that begins in 1780 amidst
the maelstrom of revolution and continues throughout the three tumultuous
decades that would decide the future course of this nation. Set against
the turbulent years in which outnumbered but gritty American pioneers took
on the powerful tribes of the Old Southwest, whose tragic plight is clearly
revealed, Jackson’s Way artfully reconstructs the era and the region
that made Andrew Jackson’s reputation as "Old Hickory," a man who was
so beloved that men voted for him fifteen years after his death.
As Buchanan separates fact from myth and resurrects the remarkable man
behind the legend, he brings to life the thrilling details of frontier
warfare and of Jackson’s exploits as an Indian fighter–and reassesses
the vilification that has since been heaped on him because of his Indian
policy. Culminating with Jackson’s defeat of the British at New Orleans–the
stunning victory that made him a national hero and paved his way to becoming
the only president who gave his name to an age–this gripping narrative
shows us how a people’s obsession with land and opportunity and their
charismatic leader’s quest for an empire produced what would become the
United States of America that we know today.
Impeccably researched and elegantly written, Jackson’s Way paints
a penetrating portrait of the shrewd general and politician responsible
for sealing the American drive for empire. Best of all, it gives us a dramatic
look at a highly charged period in our history, one in which those with
the "West in their eyes" would triumph.
Hardcover: 448 pages
John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471282537; 1 edition (January
5, 2001)
The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military
Victory
by Robert Vincent Remini (Preface)
The United States and Britain had already negotiated an end to the
War of 1812 when their troops met on the Plains of Chalmette near New Orleans
in 1815. Word of the peace had not yet reached that far west, so a group
of professional British soldiers clashed with a rag-tag band of about 4,000
"frontiersmen, militiamen, regular soldiers, free men of color, Indians,
pirates, and townspeople" along the banks of the Mississippi River. These
were "citizen-soldiers" in the finest sense, writes Robert V. Remini, the
acclaimed biographer of Andrew Jackson, and they were commanded by a man
whose military experience had commenced only two years earlier. Yet the
battle "was one of the great turning points in American history" because
it "produced a President and an enduring belief in the military ability
of free people to protect and preserve their society and their way of life."
Remini may oversell the battle's importance, but not by much. His enthusiasm
is the mark of a historian in love with his subject. The Battle of New
Orleans (and the War of 1812 in general) has tended to suffer more from
neglect than from too much attention. This concise book, full of workmanlike
prose, is a fine introduction to what Remini calls "America's first military
victory" (he downplays Saratoga and Yorktown as "simply surrenders, nothing
more"). Military history buffs won't want to miss it. --John J. Miller
- Amazon.com
Listed under The War of 1812
The
Life of Andrew Jackson
by Robert V. Remini
A highly readable abridgement of his three-volume work.
Paperback: 412 pages
Harper Perennial; ISBN: 0060937351; (September 2001)
The
Market Revolution : Jacksonian America 1815-1846
by Charles Sellers
Paperback Reissue edition (May 1994)
Oxford Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0195089200
Liberty
and Power : The Politics of Jacksonian America (American Century
Series)
by Harry L. Watson
Paperback Noonday pr edition (February 1990)
Noonday Pr; ISBN: 0374521964
The Long, Bitter Trail : Andrew Jackson and the Indians (Critical
Issue)
by Anthony F. C. Wallace, Eric Foner (Editor)
The Long, Bitter Trail considers the dramatic, little-understood factors
that led to the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Listed under The American West
Andrew
Jackson Vs. Henry Clay : Democracy and Development in Antebellum America
(Bedford Series in History and Culture (Cloth))
by Harry L. Watson
Hardcover - 140 pages (May 1998)
St Martins Pr (Short); ISBN: 0312177720
Old
Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire
by David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler
Book Description: In the years following the War of 1812, Battle of
New Orleans hero General Andrew Jackson became a power unto himself. Having
earlier gained national acclaim and a military promotion upon successfully
leading the West Tennessee militia in the Creek War of 1813-1814, Jackson
furthered his fame in the First Seminole War in 1818, which led to his
invasion of Spanish West Florida without presidential or congressional
authorization and to the execution of two British subjects. In Old Hickory's...
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press; (April 2003)
ISBN: 0807128678
Andrew Jackson (World Leaders Past and Present)
by Herman J. Viola, Arthur M. Schlesinger (Designer)
Reading level: Young Adult
Library Binding - 112 pages (April 1987)
Chelsea House Pub (Library); ISBN: 0877545871
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