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Andrew Jackson - The American Presidents Series: The 7th President, 1829-1837 (Hardcover)
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Andrew Jackson - The American Presidents Series: The 7th President, 1829-1837 (Hardcover)
Series: American Presidents
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The towering figure who remade American politics--the champion of
the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilege
The Founding Fathers espoused a republican government, but they
were distrustful of the common people, having designed a
constitutional system that would temper popular passions. But as
the revolutionary generation passed from the scene in the 1820s, a
new movement, based on the principle of broader democracy, gathered
force and united behind Andrew Jackson, the charismatic general who
had defeated the British at New Orleans and who embodied the hopes
of ordinary Americans. Raising his voice against the artificial
inequalities fostered by birth, station, monied power, and
political privilege, Jackson brought American politics into a new
age.
Sean Wilentz, one of America's leading historians of the
nineteenth century, recounts the fiery career of this
larger-than-life figure, a man whose high ideals were matched in
equal measure by his failures and moral blind spots, a man who is
remembered for the accomplishments of his eight years in office and
for the bitter enemies he made. It was in Jackson's time that the
great conflicts of American politics--urban versus rural, federal
versus state, free versus slave--crystallized, and Jackson was not
shy about taking a vigorous stand. It was under Jackson that modern
American politics began, and his legacy continues to inform our
debates to the present day.
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