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  • Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny

    • ASIN: 0735213240
    • ISBN: 0735213240
    • Manufacturer: Sentinel

    Now in paperback with a new afterword.... Another pageturning New York Times bestseller by the authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes attacked settlers in the West, while the Royal Navy terrorized the coas... [Read More]

  • AMERICAN LION: Andrew Jackson in the White House

    • ASIN: 0812973461
    • ISBN: 0812973461
    • Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks
    • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks

    The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington foreverAndrew 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, An... [Read More]

  • In Defense of Andrew Jackson

    • ASIN: 1621577287
    • ISBN: 1621577287
    • Brand: Regnery History
    • Manufacturer: Regnery History

     "He was a man of the frontier, self-made but appreciative of those who gave him their loyalty and support. He was, pure and simple, and American..." Andrew Jackson was controversial in his time—and even more controversial in our own. Indian fighter, ardent patriot, hero of the War of 1812, the very embodiment of America’s democratic and fro... [Read More]

  • The Life of Andrew Jackson

    • ASIN: 0061807885
    • ISBN: 0061807885
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    “Superb professional history that moves boldly beyond the scholar’s monograph to make the American past alive and exciting for the general reader.” —Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. [Remini] has produced a wonderful portrait, rich in detail, of a fascinating and important man and an authoritative . . . . account of his role in American History.” �... [Read More]

  • A Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson

    • ASIN: 0230609503
    • ISBN: 0230609503
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

    The forty-year love affair between Rachel and Andrew Jackson parallels a tumultuous period in American history. Andrew Jackson was at the forefront of the American revolution―but he never could have made it without the support of his wife. Beautiful, charismatic, and generous, Rachel Jackson had the courage to go against the mores of her times in... [Read More]

  • Andrew Jackson

    • ASIN: 0805069259
    • ISBN: 0805069259
    • Brand: Wilentz, Sean
    • Manufacturer: Times Books - Henry Holt and Company

    The towering figure who remade American politics―the champion of the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilege"It is rare that historians manage both Wilentz's deep interpretation and lively narrative." - Publishers Weekly The Founding Fathers espoused a republican government, but they were distrustful of the common people, having ... [Read More]

  • The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

    • ASIN: B000Q9ITGW
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)

    • ASIN: 0809015528
    • ISBN: 0809015528
    • Manufacturer: Hill and Wang

    The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. This account of Congress's Indian Removal Act of 1830 focuses on the plight of the Indians of the Southeast--Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles--who were forced to leave their ancestral lands and relo... [Read More]

  • Presidents of War

    • ASIN: 0307409600
    • ISBN: 9780307409607
    • Brand: Crown
    • Manufacturer: Crown

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders a... [Read More]

  • Andrew Jackson

    • ASIN: 0060801328
    • ISBN: 9780060801328
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

  • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

    • ASIN: B0089EHKE8
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab

    • ASIN: 1594205566
    • ISBN: 9781594205569
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Press

    Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two men—President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross—who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a strugg... [Read More]

  • Andrew Jackson and the Course of the American Empire 1767-1821

    • ASIN: 0060135743
    • ISBN: 0060135743
    • Manufacturer: Harper & Row

    Reviews critically Jackson's career up to his campaign for the presidency, emphasizing his role in America's territorial expansion

  • Andrew the Great: The Heroic Story of Andrew Jackson That "They" Don't Want You to Know

    • ASIN: 1986484645
    • ISBN: 1986484645
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    Who was Andrew Jackson? We see his face every time an ATM spews out a bunch of $20 bills for us; and again and again when we spend those same bills. We hear or repeat his name, though perhaps not knowingly, whenever the well-known towns of Jacksonville, Florida or Jackson, Mississippi are mentioned; or any of the 14 towns and 22 counties throughout... [Read More]

  • Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication (Library of American Biography Series)

    • ASIN: 0673393348
    • ISBN: 0673393348
    • Brand: Brand: Pearson
    • Manufacturer: Pearson

    Book by Curtis, James C.

  • Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age (Galaxy Books)

    • ASIN: 0195006992
    • ISBN: 0195006992
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Was the man who lent his name to "Jacksonian America" a rough-hewn frontiersman? A powerful, victorious general? Or merely a man of will? Separating myth from reality, John William Ward here demonstrates how Andrew Jackson captured the imagination of a generation of Americans and came to represent not just leadership but the ideal of courage, fores... [Read More]

  • Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay: Democracy and Development in Antebellum America (Bedford Series in History and Culture)

    • ASIN: 0312112130
    • ISBN: 0312112130
    • Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's

    Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay presents a selection of letters, essays, and speeches in order to demonstrate how these two individuals' clashing perspectives shaped and exemplified the major issues of national politics between the War of 1812 and the territorial crisis of 1850, the preservation of the union, federal commitments to banking, tariffs, ... [Read More]

  • Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

    • ASIN: 0767929713
    • ISBN: 0767929713
    • Brand: Candice Millard
    • Manufacturer: Anchor Books

    A Booklist Notable Book of 2012The extraordinary New York Times bestselling account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from bestselling author of The River of Doubt, Candice Millard.   James Abram Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected p... [Read More]

  • The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

    • ASIN: 0374201234
    • ISBN: 0374201234
    • Manufacturer: MCD

    The first book from the basketball superstar Kobe Bryant―a lavish, deep dive inside the mind of one of the most revered athletes of all timeIn the wake of his retirement from professional basketball, Kobe “The Black Mamba” Bryant has decided to share his vast knowledge and understanding of the game to take readers on an unprecedented journey ... [Read More]

  • Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom 1822-1832

    • ASIN: 0060148446
    • ISBN: 0060148446
    • Manufacturer: Harper & Row

    Recounts Jackson's senatorial career, presidential campaigns, and efforts, during his first administration, to restore morality to government

  • Andrew Jackson - Good Evil & The Presidency - PBS Documentary

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