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Andrew Jackson : The American Presidents Series: the 7th President, 1829-1837 by Sean Wilentz (2005, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHolt & Company, Henry
ISBN-100805069259
ISBN-139780805069259
eBay Product ID (ePID)47844304
Product Key Features
Book TitleAndrew Jackson : the American Presidents Series: the 7th President, 1829-1837
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicUnited States / 19th Century, Presidents & Heads of State
FeaturesRevised
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorSean Wilentz
Book SeriesThe American Presidents Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight14.6 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-052857
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal973.5/6/092 B
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisAndrew Jackson, the charismatic general who had defeated the British at New Orleans and who embodied the hopes of ordinary Americans, brought American politics into a new age. This text recounts the fiery career of this larger-than-life figure., 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 designed a constitutional system that would temper popular passions. But as the revolutionary generation passed from the scene in the 1820s, a new movement, based on the principle of broader democracy, gathered force and united behind Andrew Jackson, the charismatic general who had defeated the British at New Orleans and who embodied the hopes of ordinary Americans. Raising his voice against the artificial inequalities fostered by birth, station, monied power, and political privilege, Jackson brought American politics into a new age. Sean Wilentz, one of America's leading historians of the nineteenth century, recounts the fiery career of this larger-than-life figure, a man whose high ideals were matched in equal measure by his failures and moral blind spots, a man who is remembered for the accomplishments of his eight years in office and for the bitter enemies he made. It was in Jackson's time that the great conflicts of American politics--urban versus rural, federal versus state, free versus slave--crystallized, and Jackson was not shy about taking a vigorous stand. It was under Jackson that modern American politics began, and his legacy continues to inform our debates to the present day.
LC Classification NumberE382.W74 2005
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