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American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House Jon Meacham
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 382 .M43 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meacham, Jon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.
- Jackson, Andrew.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- United States--Politics and government--1829-1837.
- United States.
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845--Family.
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845--Friends and associates.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 483 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009, c2008.
- 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 that surrounded him, and his legacy for the modern presidency.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-462) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812973464
- 0812973461
- OCLC:
- 368146155
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