Excerpt from Life of Andrew Jackson, Vol. 1 of 3 The value of a work of this kind depends, of course, wholly upon its credibility; and this is particularly the case with one which, besides containing much that is new, contains also much that is unexpected. A brief account of the author's labors will, perhaps, be the best way of enabling the reader to judge how far he may abandon himself' to the narrative before him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Life of Andrew Jackson, Vol. 1 Probably the first person to take thought of a life of Andrew Jackson was Jackson himself. His letters show that he began to preserve material for his biographer from the time he became a public personage. The drafts of the letters he wrote, the letters he received, and his simplest public papers were carefully filed away in boxes. Some of the papers were endorsed, "To be kept for the historian." They became numerous with the wars against the Creeks and the British, his first great achievements; and out of that phase of life came his first biography. To Major John Reid, military aide, faithful companion in the darkest hours of trial, author of many of Jackson's military papers, and a man of real ability - as his book shows - was entrusted the task of preparing this story. He carried the narrative through the Creek war before it was interrupted by death in 1816. Jackson was concerned to find a man to complete the work, and at last hit upon John H. Eaton, then a promising young lawyer whose industry was so great that the book was placed before the public in 1817. Its origin, progress, and completion were all under the direct oversight of Jackson himself. Eaton brought out a second edition in 1828, with chapters bringing the story down to date. It was not a critical work, but the parts which had no bearing on the political campaigns of 1824 and 1828 were well written. Reid particularly recommends himself as a straightforward historian. Jackson's political career brought forth a plentiful crop of biographies, all of which are mentioned in the exhaustive preface to Parton's "Life of Jackson." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Life of Andrew Jackson, Vol. 3 of 3 In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern Distn'ct of N ew York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Life of Andrew Jackson, Vol. 2 of 3 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Life of Andrew Jackson: Condensed From the Author's "Life of Andrew Jackson," in Three Volumes This volume is a condensation of the Life of Andrew Jack son, in three volumes, octavo, which was published by the author in 1860. Nearly every thing in the way of document, letter, episode, disquisition, note, or appendix, has been omit ted; but the story of the life has been retained, and the more interesting narratives, scenes, and anecdotes, are preserved entire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States of America Among all the duties of men who meddle with public affairs, and who have any portion of the press at their command, no one is more obligato ry upon them than that of endeavouring, by all the means that they have in their power, to do justice to the character and conduct of those who, during their own time especially, have rendered eminent services in the cause of public justice and public liberty; and among all the men who have distinguished themselves in this way in the present age, I know of no one who can challenge any thing like an equality with him whose life and actions are the subject of the following pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from The Life of Andrew Jackson Other aspirants were Roger B Taney, George Bancroft, and Amos Kendall. The last was given the promise of the papers. He began to write in 1842 when he had lost the auditorship to which his patron appointed him. He was then poor financially and expected large returns from his venture. He began to publish it in parts, announcing that fifteen would complete the enterprise. Jackson placed the en tire collection of papers at his disposal, and two visits to the Hermitage gave fair Opportunity to get all it contained. He carried away to Washington many of the most immr tant papers and had not returned them when Jackson died in 1845. His work was interrupted when seven instalments had appeared, and it was not completed. Jackson was not pleased with the numbers which he saw, but did not withdraw the papers. There was a plan on foot to build a Jackson memorial in Washington, and he desired them to be handed over by Kendall, when he had finished with them, to Frank P. Blair to hold until the memorial was completed when they were to be deposited there. The least valuable of the collection were not taken to Washington by Kendall, and these went to Blair from Jackson himself. Later Kendall turned over a part of those in hand to Blair, but the latter complained that the most valuable were not delivered. Blair also said that Kendall would yet publish a life of Jackson, written to glorify the writer of it; and he intended to charge his sons to write a true biography which would counteract the errors he expected to be in Kendall's. This, so far as the letters show, is all the basis that existed for the assertion that Blair was to write the life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
