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The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson—the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in age Democracy and set a still young America on its way to greatness—told by the bestselling writer of The First American.
The most famous American of his time, Andrew Jackson is a seminal figure in American history. The first “common man” to go up to the presidency, Jackson embodied the spirit and the vision of the emerging American nation; the word “Jacksonian democracy” is embedded in our national lexicon.
With the sweep, passion, and focus on detail that made The First American a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a national bestseller, historian H.W. Brands shapes a historical narrative that’s as fast-paced and compelling as the best fiction. He follows Andrew Jackson from his days as rebellious youth, risking execution to free the Carolinas of the British through the Revolutionary War, to his years as a attorney and congressman from the newly settled frontier state of Tennessee. As general of the Tennessee militia, he put down an enormous Indian uprising in the South, securing the safety of American settlers, and his famous rout of the British at the Battle of New Orleans through the War of 1812 made him a national hero.
But it is Jackson’s contributions as president, however, that won him a place in the pantheon of America’s greatest leaders. A man of people, without formal education or the family lineage of the Founding Fathers, he sought as president to help make the country a genuine democracy, governed by as well as for people. Jackson, although respectful of states’ rights, devoted himself to the preservation of the Union, whose future in that age was still very much involved. When SC, his home state, threatened to secede over the issue of slavery, Jackson promised to march down with 100,000 federal soldiers should it dare.
In the bestselling tradition of Founding Brothers and His Excellency by Joseph Ellis and of John Adams by David McCullough, Andrew Jackson is the first single-volume, full-length biography of Jackson in decades. This magisterial portrait of one of our own greatest leaders promises to reshape our understanding of both the man and his era and will be greeted with enthusiasm and acclaim.
