The Passions of Andrew Jackson-Quality Guarantee

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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 , with the first major reinterpretation of his life in a generation, historianAndrew Burstein brings back Jackson with all his audacity and hot-tempered rhetoric.

The unabashedly aggressive Jackson came of age in the Carolinas during the AmericanRevolution, migrating to Tennessee after he was orphaned at the age of more than a poorly educated frontier bully when he first opened his publiccareer, he was possessed of a controlling sense of honor that would lead him intomore than one a lover, he fled to Spanish Mississippi with his wife-to-bebefore she was when he was declared a national hero upon his stunningvictory at the Battle of New Orleans, Jackson suddenly found the presidency withinhis this brash frontiersman took Washington by storm makes a fascinatingstory, and Burstein tells it thoughtfully and the process he revealswhy Jackson was so fiercely loved (and fiercely hated) by the American people, andhow his presidency came to shape the young country’s character.