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The life of Andrew Jackson / Robert V. Remini.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 382 .R454 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Remini, Robert V. (Robert Vincent), 1921-2013.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.
- Jackson, Andrew.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.
- United States.
- United States--Territorial expansion.
- United States--Colonial question.
- Politics and government.
- Territorial expansion.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 412 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, ©1988.
- Summary:
- Condensation of the author's threevol. biography: of Andrew Jackson.
- Contents:
- Boy from the Waxhaw district
- Frontiersman and lawyer
- Congressman Jackson
- The duel
- Old Hickory
- The Creek War
- The Battle of New Orleans
- Indian removal
- The first Seminole War
- Governor Jackson
- An era of corruption
- "Jackson and reform"
- The first people's inaugural
- The reform begins
- Political upheaval
- Return to reform
- The bank war begins
- Jackson and the Union
- The Union preserved
- "The grand triumphal tour"
- Panic!
- The end of the bank
- The hermitage fire
- Jacksonian diplomacy
- Jacksonian democracy
- Texas
- Life in the White House
- Farewell
- Retirement
- The silver jubilee
- "We must regain Texas"
- "We will all meet in Heaven."
- Notes:
- Condensation of the author's three-volume biography originally published 1977-1984 under titles: Andrew Jackson and the course of American empire, 1767-1821; Andrew Jackson and the course of American freedom, 1822-1832, and Andrew Jackson and the course of American democracy, 1833-1845.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-398) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Remini, Robert Vincent, 1921- Life of Andrew Jackson.
- ISBN:
- 0060159049
- 9780060159047
- OCLC:
- 17296114
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