Andrew Jackson - Reissue - Softcover

Remini, Robert V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060801328 ISBN 13: 9780060801328

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2014

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 1999 Pages: 256 in Publisher: Harper Perennial Andrew Jackson is best known as the President who created Jacksonian democracy with its focus on manifest destiny and laissez-faire economics. But the intensive with rarely for are his accomplishments as a general highlighted . Here. National Book Award-winning Jackson biographer Robert Remini focuses on Jackson's military career. richly illustrating his visionary and tactical skills as a general. Jackson was a great motivator who could. with a few carefully selected words and by his own ave example. turn around starved. deserting troops. convincing them to fight. His effective use of spies in wartime and of martial law in peacetime sparked a debate about the curtailing of civil liberties in the name of national security that continues to this day. With dramatic scenes of fierce battles and victories. Remini...

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Review:

"The best biography of Andrew Jackson available. It summarizes adequately the best of the old scholarship while at the same time branching off to offer significant new interpretations of crucial points." -- "Library Journal""In this concise and well-written biography Robert V. Remini has a more ambitious objective than merely recounting the life of a famous man.He portrays the President not as a symbol of the age nor a personification of proletarian striving, but as a shrewd and able politician, a pioneer in using the office of the presidency for both national and narrowly partisan purposes.His account is persuasive and well documented." -- "Political Science Quarterly""Remini, an old hand at unraveling the politics of this era, writes with assurance and cuts through hoary legends.A stimulating reassessment." --" Choice"

About the Author:

Robert V. Remini is professor of history emeritus and research professor of humanities emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and historian of the United States House of Representatives. He is the winner of the National Book Award for the third volume of his study of Andrew Jackson, and he lives in Wilmette, Illinois.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0060801328
• ISBN 13: 9780060801328
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274