Andrew Jackson

 
Andrew Jackson : The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832
by Robert V. Remini
Paperback - 504 pages Reprint edition Vol 002 (April )
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801859123

Andrew Jackson and the Bank War : A Study in the Growth of Presidential Power (Norton Essays in American History.)
Robert Vincent Remini
Paperback / Published 1967
 

Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars by Robert V. Remini "I want to assure the reader that it is not my intention to excuse or exonerate Andrew Jackson for the role he played in the removal of Native Americans west of the Mississippi River. My purpose is simply to explain what happened and why" writes Remini, who won the National Book Award for his three-volume biography of the seventh president. (Hardcover) More books on The Indian Wars

Andrew Jackson and the New Populism (Henry Steele Commager's American)
William Gutman
Paperback / Published 1987
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Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants : A Study in Political Culture (Contributions in American History, No. 176) by Lorman A. Ratner Hardcover - 152 pages (June 30, ) Greenwood Publishing Group; ISBN: 0313299587 Special Order

The Age of Jackson
by Arthur Meier, Jr. Schlesinger
This book won the Pulitzer Prize.
Paperback Reissue edition (November 1988)
Little Brown & Co (Pap); ISBN: 0316773433

Andrew Jackson : Seventh President of the United States (Encyclopedia of Presidents)
by Alice Osinski
Reading level: Ages 9-12
School & Library Binding - 100 pages (September 1987)
Children's Press; ISBN: 0516013874

In Bitterness and in Tears : Andrew Jackson's Destruction of the Creeks and Seminoles
by Sean Michael O'Brien (Author)
(Hardcover)

Jackson's Way : Andrew Jackson and the People of the Western Waters
by John Buchanan
Inside Flap Copy: Long before he became the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson waged a bloody campaign to gain lasting American control of the Old Southwest–the huge territory that stretched from the Appalachians to the Mississippi and from the Ohio River to the Gulf of Mexico. Under the Peace of Paris of 1783, most of this vast country had already been ceded to the United States by Great Britain. But from the Creeks and the Seminoles to the Choctaws, Chickasaws, and the Cherokees, the powerful, unconquered tribes who lived there refused to recognize a scrap of paper written in Paris. The pivotal struggle that ensued over much of the next three decades would end in an Indian war that would make Jackson one of the most controversial men in American history. 

From John Buchanan, the highly acclaimed author of The Road to Guilford Courthouse, comes a compulsively readable account that begins in 1780 amidst the maelstrom of revolution and continues throughout the three tumultuous decades that would decide the future course of this nation. Set against the turbulent years in which outnumbered but gritty American pioneers took on the powerful tribes of the Old Southwest, whose tragic plight is clearly revealed, Jackson’s Way artfully reconstructs the era and the region that made Andrew Jackson’s reputation as "Old Hickory," a man who was so beloved that men voted for him fifteen years after his death. 

As Buchanan separates fact from myth and resurrects the remarkable man behind the legend, he brings to life the thrilling details of frontier warfare and of Jackson’s exploits as an Indian fighter–and reassesses the vilification that has since been heaped on him because of his Indian policy. Culminating with Jackson’s defeat of the British at New Orleans–the stunning victory that made him a national hero and paved his way to becoming the only president who gave his name to an age–this gripping narrative shows us how a people’s obsession with land and opportunity and their charismatic leader’s quest for an empire produced what would become the United States of America that we know today. 

Impeccably researched and elegantly written, Jackson’s Way paints a penetrating portrait of the shrewd general and politician responsible for sealing the American drive for empire. Best of all, it gives us a dramatic look at a highly charged period in our history, one in which those with the "West in their eyes" would triumph. 
Hardcover: 448 pages
John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471282537; 1 edition (January 5, )
 

Andrew Jackson : The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 Vol 3 Robert V. Remini Paperback: 638 pages Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801859131; Reprint edition (April )

Andrew Jackson : The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 by Robert V. Remini Paperback - 544 pages Reprint edition Vol 001 (April ) Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801859115

The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory
by Robert Vincent Remini (Preface)
The United States and Britain had already negotiated an end to the War of 1812 when their troops met on the Plains of Chalmette near New Orleans in 1815. Word of the peace had not yet reached that far west, so a group of professional British soldiers clashed with a rag-tag band of about 4,000 "frontiersmen, militiamen, regular soldiers, free men of color, Indians, pirates, and townspeople" along the banks of the Mississippi River. These were "citizen-soldiers" in the finest sense, writes Robert V. Remini, the acclaimed biographer of Andrew Jackson, and they were commanded by a man whose military experience had commenced only two years earlier. Yet the battle "was one of the great turning points in American history" because it "produced a President and an enduring belief in the military ability of free people to protect and preserve their society and their way of life." Remini may oversell the battle's importance, but not by much. His enthusiasm is the mark of a historian in love with his subject. The Battle of New Orleans (and the War of 1812 in general) has tended to suffer more from neglect than from too much attention. This concise book, full of workmanlike prose, is a fine introduction to what Remini calls "America's first military victory" (he downplays Saratoga and Yorktown as "simply surrenders, nothing more"). Military history buffs won't want to miss it. --John J. Miller - Amazon.com
Listed under The War of 1812

The Life of Andrew Jackson
by Robert V. Remini
A highly readable abridgement of his three-volume work.
Paperback: 412 pages
Harper Perennial; ISBN: 0060937351;

The Market Revolution : Jacksonian America 1815-1846
by Charles Sellers
Paperback Reissue edition
Oxford Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0195089200

Liberty and Power : The Politics of Jacksonian America (American Century Series)
by Harry L. Watson
Paperback Noonday pr edition (February 1990)
Noonday Pr; ISBN: 0374521964

The Long, Bitter Trail : Andrew Jackson and the Indians (Critical Issue)
by Anthony F. C. Wallace, Eric Foner (Editor)
The Long, Bitter Trail considers the dramatic, little-understood factors that led to the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Listed under The American West

Andrew Jackson Vs. Henry Clay : Democracy and Development in Antebellum America
(Bedford Series in History and Culture (Cloth))
by Harry L. Watson
Hardcover - 140 pages
St Martins Pr (Short); ISBN: 0312177720

Old Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire
by David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler
Book Description: In the years following the War of 1812, Battle of New Orleans hero General Andrew Jackson became a power unto himself. Having earlier gained national acclaim and a military promotion upon successfully leading the West Tennessee militia in the Creek War of 1813-1814, Jackson furthered his fame in the First Seminole War in 1818, which led to his invasion of Spanish West Florida without presidential or congressional authorization and to the execution of two British subjects. In Old Hickory's...
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press; (April )
ISBN: 0807128678

Andrew Jackson (United States Presidents)
by Karen Judson
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Library Binding - 112 pages
Enslow Publishers, Inc.; ISBN: 0894908316
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Andrew Jackson (World Leaders Past and Present)
by Herman J. Viola, Arthur M. Schlesinger (Designer)
Reading level: Young Adult
Library Binding - 112 pages (April 1987)
Chelsea House Pub (Library); ISBN: 0877545871
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