The Passions of Andrew Jackson by Andrew Burstein

The Passions of Andrew Jackson by Andrew Burstein

Most people vaguely imagine Andrew Jackson as a jaunty warrior and a man of the people, but he was much more--a man just as complex and controversial as Jefferson or Lincoln. Now, with the first major reinterpretation of his life in a generation, historian Andrew Burstein brings back Jackson with all his audacity and hot-tempered rhetoric.
The unabashedly aggressive Jackson came of age in the Carolinas during the American Revolution, migrating to Tennessee after he was orphaned at the age of fourteen. Little more than a poorly educated frontier bully when he first opened his public career, he was possessed of a controlling sense of honor that would lead him into more than one duel. As a lover, he fled to Spanish Mississippi with his wife-to-be before she was divorced. Yet when he was declared a national hero upon his stunning victory at the Battle of New Orleans, Jackson suddenly found the presidency within his grasp. How this brash frontiersman took Washington by storm makes a fascinating story, and Burstein tells it thoughtfully and expertly. In the process he reveals why Jackson was so fiercely loved (and fiercely hated) by the American people, and how his presidency came to shape the young country's character.

Charles P. Burstein is the Charles P. Burstein is the Charles P. Burstein is the Charles P Louisiana State University's Manship Professor of History He is the author of Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello, as well as Madison and Jefferson, which he coauthored with Nancy Isenberg.

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ISBN 13	9780375414282
ISBN 10	0375414282
Title	The Passions of Andrew Jackson
Author	Andrew Burstein
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2003-02-04
Number of pages	320
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