Old Hickory
Old Hickory

Author: John Frost

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781022657403

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Old Hickory is a captivating biography of General Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States. Written for young readers, the book covers Jackson's early life, military career and political achievements. The book will appeal to anyone interested in American history, politics and leadership. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Old Hickory
Old Hickory

Author: John Frost

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-12-27

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9781353980584

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Old Hickory (Illustrated Edition)
Old Hickory (Illustrated Edition)

Author: John Frost

Publisher: Nook Press

Published: 2018-05-27

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781538081020

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This is one of the "Old Rough and Ready" series, which highlights the lives of famous individuals, inluding Daniel Webster, Napoleon, and Henry Clay, as well as the man featured here, Andrew Jackson. Jackson was seventh President of the United States, the dominant actor in American politics between Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Born to obscure parents and orphaned in youth, he was the first "self-made man" and the first westerner to reach the White House. He became a democratic symbol and founder of the Democratic Party. During his two-term presidency, he expanded executive powers and transformed the President's role from chief administrator to popular tribune. Included in this Illustrated Edition of Old Hickory are all nine original illustrations, rejuvenated. In June of 1812, the United States finally declared war on Great Britain. That November, a Tennessee force was ordered to the defense of New Orleans. He managed to defeat a much larger British force that included more troops, supplies, and naval forces. Jackson was also responsible for defeating some of the Native American tribes of Kentucky and Tennessee. He negotiated the purchase of most of Western Kentucky from the Indians. To this day, this section of land is known as the "Jackson Purchase." Jackson was a stern person, some say cruel, at times, with a rigid moral code and an unfailing belief in Christianity. There seems to be no record of his complaining about hunger, thirst, tiredness nor pain throughout his life. "Old Hickory," indeed.

Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson

Author: H. W. Brands

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2006-10-10

Total Pages: 650

ISBN-13: 0307278549

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The First American comes the first major single-volume biography in a decade of the president who defined American democracy • "A big, rich biography.” —The Boston Globe H. W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he ushered in. An orphan at a young age and without formal education or the family lineage of the Founding Fathers, Jackson showed that the presidency was not the exclusive province of the wealthy and the well-born but could truly be held by a man of the people. On a majestic, sweeping scale Brands re-creates Jackson’s rise from his hardscrabble roots to his days as frontier lawyer, then on to his heroic victory in the Battle of New Orleans, and finally to the White House. Capturing Jackson’s outsized life and deep impact on American history, Brands also explores his controversial actions, from his unapologetic expansionism to the disgraceful Trail of Tears. Look for H.W. Brands's other biographies: THE FIRST AMERICAN (Benjamin Franklin), THE MAN WHO SAVED THE UNION (Ulysses S. Grant), TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS (Franklin Roosevelt) and REAGAN.

Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson

Author: Sean Wilentz

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1429900989

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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.

The Rise of Andrew Jackson
The Rise of Andrew Jackson

Author: David S Heidler

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2018-10-23

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 046509757X

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The story of Andrew Jackson's improbable ascent to the White House, centered on the handlers and propagandists who made it possible Andrew Jackson was volatile and prone to violence, and well into his forties his sole claim on the public's affections derived from his victory in a thirty-minute battle at New Orleans in early 1815. Yet those in his immediate circle believed he was a great man who should be president of the United States. Jackson's election in 1828 is usually viewed as a result of the expansion of democracy. Historians David and Jeanne Heidler argue that he actually owed his victory to his closest supporters, who wrote hagiographies of him, founded newspapers to savage his enemies, and built a political network that was always on message. In transforming a difficult man into a paragon of republican virtue, the Jacksonites exploded the old order and created a mode of electioneering that has been mimicked ever since.