Driven West: Andrew Jackson's Trail of Tears to the Civil War

Langguth, A. J.

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9781400168491: Driven West: Andrew Jackson's Trail of Tears to the Civil War

ISBN 10: 140016849X ISBN 13: 9781400168491

Publisher: Tantor Media Inc, 2010

By the acclaimed author of the classic Patriots and Union 1812, this major work of narrative history portrays four of the most turbulent decades in the growth of the American nation. After the War of 1812, Presidents Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, and Polk led the country to its Manifest Destiny across the continent, but the forces and hostility unleashed by that expansion led inexorably to Civil War.As president, Andrew Jackson decreed that the Indians of Georgia be forcibly removed to make way for the exploding white population. His policy set off angry debate in the Senate among such giants as Henry Clay, John Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, and protests from writers in the north like Ralph Waldo Emerson, who represented the growing abolitionist movement. Southern slave owners understood that those protests would not stop with defending a few Indian tribes.

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Review:

A fast-paced, lively narrative history of American politics from the 1820s to the Civil War. . . captures the dark drama of Indian removal. . . "Driven West" delivers a timely reminder that we will and should be judged by how we treat "the least among us." "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette""

Langguth has few equals when it comes to historical reporting. "Tuscon Citizen ""

"A fast-paced, lively narrative history of American politics from the 1820s to the Civil War. . . captures the dark drama of Indian removal. . . Driven West delivers a timely reminder that we will--and should--be judged by how we treat "the least among us." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Langguth has few equals when it comes to historical reporting." -Tuscon Citizen

About the Author:

A. J. Langguth is the author of almost a dozen books, including Union 1812; Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution; and Our Vietnam: The War, 1954–1975.
Mel Foster has narrated over 150 audiobooks and has won several awards. Twice an Audie finalist for 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History by Charles Bracelen Flood and Finding God in Unexpected Places by Philip Yancey, he won for the latter title.

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