American Lion Andrew Jackson in the White House

Name: American Lion Andrew Jackson in the White House
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ISBN: 9781400063253

ISBN-10: 1400063256

ISBN-13: 9781400063253

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jon Meacham

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Andrew 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, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson's election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad. To tell the saga of… Jackson's presidency, acclaimed author Jon Meacham goes inside the Jackson White House. Drawing on newly discovered family letters and papers, he details the human dramathe family, the women, and the inner circle of advisersthat shaped Jackson's private world through years of storm and victory. One of our most significant yet dimly recalled presidents, Jackson was a battle-hardened warrior, the founder of the Democratic Party, and the architect of the presidency as we know it. His story is one of violence, sex, courage, and tragedy. With his powerful persona, his evident bravery, and his mystical connection to the people, Jackson moved the White House from the periphery of government to the center of national action, articulating a vision of change that challenged entrenched interests to heed the popular willor face his formidable wrath. The greatest of the presidents who have followed Jackson in the White Housefrom Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to FDR to Trumanhave found inspiration in his example, and virtue in his vision. Jackson was the most contradictory of men. The architect of the removal of Indians from their native lands, he was warmly sentimental and risked everything to give more power to ordinary citizens. He was, in short, a lot like his country: alternately kind and vicious, brilliant and blind; and a man who fought a lifelong war to keep the republic safeno matter what it took. Jon Meacham inAmerican Lionhas delivered the definitive human portrait of a pivotal president who forever changed the American presidencyand America itself. Praise forAmerican Lion "Every so often a terrific biography comes along that shines a new light on a familiar figure in American history. So it was with David McCullough's John Adams, so it was with Walter Isaacson's Benjamin Franklin, so it is with Jon Meacham's Andrew Jackson. A master storyteller, Meacham interweaves the lives of Jackson and the members of his inner circle to create a highly original book." Doris Kearns Goodwin

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/11/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 6.45" wide x 9.49" long x 1.51" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Jon Meacham was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on May 20, 1969. He received a degree in English literature at the University of the South. He joined Newsweek as a writer in 1995. Three years later, at the age of 29, he was promoted to managing editor, supervising coverage of politics, international affairs, and breaking news. In 2006, he was promoted to editor at Newsweek. He is currently an executive editor at Random House. He won the Pulitzer Prize for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House in 2009. His other works include Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation. In 2001, he edited…



A Note on the Text


Principal Characters


Prologue: With the Feelings of a Father: The White House, Washington, Winter 1832-33



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


Epilogue: He Still Lives


Author's Note and Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Index