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The definitive biography of your larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and altered Washington permanently
Andrew Jackson, his seductive group of friends, and his tumultuous times are in the heart of this remarkable book about the person who rose from nothing to create the present day presidency. Favorite and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of electric power, bending the nation to his will in the reason for democracy. Jackson’s election in 1828 ushered in a fresh and lasting time in which the people, not faraway elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave speech to the hopes and the worries of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and hazards abroad. To tell the saga of Jackson’s presidency, acclaimed publisher Jon Meacham runs inside the Jackson White House. Drawing on newly discovered family letters and papers, he details the individual crisis–the family, the women, and the inner group of advisers– that designed Jackson’s private world through many years of storm and success.
Among our most significant yet dimly recalled presidents, Jackson was a battle-hardened warrior, the founder of the Democratic Get together, and the architect of the presidency as we realize it. His history is one of assault, love-making, courage, and tragedy. With his powerful persona, his evident bravery, and his mystical link with folks, Jackson changed the White House from the periphery of federal to the center of countrywide action, articulating a eyesight of change that challenged entrenched interests to heed the popular will– or face his formidable wrath. The greatest of the presidents who've followed Jackson in the White House–from Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to FDR to Truman–have found inspiration in his example, and virtue in his eyesight.
Jackson was the most contradictory of men. The architect of removing Indians using their local lands, he was warmly sentimental and risked everything to provide more capacity to ordinary people. He was, in a nutshell, nearly the same as his country: alternately kind and vicious, brilliant and blind; and a guy who fought a lifelong war to keep carefully the republic safe–no real matter what it took.
