Download or read book Old Hickory written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Hickory written by Burke Davis and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal life and turbulent military and political career of Andrew Jackson are considered in light of major twentieth-century reappraisals of America's seventh president and his time.
Download or read book Life of General Jackson Old Hickory written by Oliver Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Hickory Andrew Jackson and the American People written by Albert Marrin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-12-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a childhood steeped in poverty, violence, and patriotic pride, Andrew Jackson rose to the heights of celebrity and power. The first popularly elected president, he won admiration by fighting corruption, championing the common man, shaping the power of the executive office, and preserving the fragile union of the young United States. Yet Jackson's ruthless pursuit of what he believed to be "progress" left indelible stains on the nation's conscience: broken treaties and the Trail of Tears are among Old Hickory's darker legacies. Vivid detail and unflinching analysis characterize Albert Marrin's fascinating rendering of the adventurous life, painful complexity, and continuing controversy that define the Age of Jackson.
Download or read book Old Hickory Illustrated Edition written by John Frost and published by Nook Press. This book was released on 2018-05-27 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the "Old Rough and Ready" series, which highlights the lives of famous individuals, inluding Daniel Webster, Napoleon, and Henry Clay, as well as the man featured here, Andrew Jackson. Jackson was seventh President of the United States, the dominant actor in American politics between Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Born to obscure parents and orphaned in youth, he was the first "self-made man" and the first westerner to reach the White House. He became a democratic symbol and founder of the Democratic Party. During his two-term presidency, he expanded executive powers and transformed the President's role from chief administrator to popular tribune. Included in this Illustrated Edition of Old Hickory are all nine original illustrations, rejuvenated. In June of 1812, the United States finally declared war on Great Britain. That November, a Tennessee force was ordered to the defense of New Orleans. He managed to defeat a much larger British force that included more troops, supplies, and naval forces. Jackson was also responsible for defeating some of the Native American tribes of Kentucky and Tennessee. He negotiated the purchase of most of Western Kentucky from the Indians. To this day, this section of land is known as the "Jackson Purchase." Jackson was a stern person, some say cruel, at times, with a rigid moral code and an unfailing belief in Christianity. There seems to be no record of his complaining about hunger, thirst, tiredness nor pain throughout his life. "Old Hickory," indeed.
Download or read book Old Hickory s Nephew written by Mark R. Cheathem and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though remembered largely by history as Andrew Jackson's nephew, Andrew Jackson Donelson was himself a significant figure in nineteenth-century America: a politician, planter, diplomat, newspaper editor, and vice-presidential candidate. His relationship with his uncle and mentor defined his life, as he struggled to find the political and personal success that he wanted and his uncle thought he deserved. In Old Hickory's Nephew, the first definitive biography of this enigmatic man, Mark R. Cheathem explores both Donelson's political contributions and his complex, tumultuous, and often-overlooked relationship with Andrew Jackson. Born in Sumner County, Tennessee, in 1799, Donelson lost his father only five years later. Andrew Jackson soon became a force in his nephew's life, seeing in his namesake his political protégé. Jackson went so far as to predict that Donelson would one day become president. After attending West Point, Donelson helped establish the Jacksonian wing of the Democratic party and edited a national Democratic newspaper. As a diplomat, he helped bring about the annexation of Texas and, following in his uncle's footsteps, he became the owner of several plantations. On the surface, Donelson was a political and personal success. But few lives are so straightforward. The strong relationship between the uncle and nephew -- defined by the concept of honor that suffused the southern society in which they lived -- quickly frayed when Donelson and his wife defied his uncle during the infamous Peggy Eaton sex scandal of Jackson's first presidential administration. This resulted, Cheathem shows, in a tense relationship, full of distrust and suspicion, between Donelson and Jackson that lasted until the "Hero of New Orleans" died in 1845. Donelson later left the Democratic party in a tiff and joined the American, or Know Nothing, party, which selected him as Millard Fillmore's running mate in 1856. Though Donelson tried to establish himself as his uncle's political successor and legator, his friends and foes alike accused him of trading on his uncle's name to gain political and financial success. The life of Andrew Jackson Donelson illuminates the expectations placed upon young southern men of prominent families as well as the complexities and contradictions in their lives. In this biography, Cheathem awakens interest in a nearly forgotten but nonetheless intriguing figure in American history.
Download or read book Old Hickory written by John Frost and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Hickory is a captivating biography of General Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States. Written for young readers, the book covers Jackson's early life, military career and political achievements. The book will appeal to anyone interested in American history, politics and leadership. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Old Hickory written by James Barber and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Presidency of Andrew Jackson written by Donald B. Cole and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1829 Andrew Jackson arrived in Washington in a carriage. Eight years and two turbulent presidential terms later, he left on a train. Those years, among the most prosperous in American history, saw America transformed not only by growth in transportation but by the expansion of the market economy and the formation of the mass political party. Jackson's ambivalence—and that of his followers—toward the new politics and the new economy is the story of this book. Historians have often depicted the Old Hero (or Old Hickory) as bigger than life—so prominent that his name was wed to an era. Donald Cole presents a different Jackson, one not always sure of himself and more controlled by than in control of the political and economic forces of his age. He portrays Jackson as a leader who yearned for the agrarian past but was also entranced by the future of a growing market economy. The dominant theme of Jackson's presidency, Cole argues, was his inconsistent and unsuccessful battle to resist market revolution. Elected by a broad coalition of interest groups, Jackson battled constantly not only his opponents but also his supporters. He spent most of his first term rearranging his administration and contending with Congress. His accomplishments were mostly negative—relocating Indians, vetoing road bills and the Bank bill, and opposing nullification. The greatest achievement of his administration, the rise of the mass political party, was more the work of advisers than of Jackson himself. He did, however, make a lasting imprint, Cole contends. Through his strength, passions, and especially his anxiety, Jackson symbolized the ambivalence of his fellow Americans at a decisive moment—a time when the country was struggling with the conflict between the ideals of the Revolution and the realities of nineteenth-century capitalism.
Download or read book The Battle of New Orleans written by Robert V. Remini and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of New Orleans was the climactic battle of America's "forgotten war" of 1812. Andrew Jackson led his ragtag corps of soldiers against 8,000 disciplined invading British regulars in a battle that delivered the British a humiliating military defeat. The victory solidified America's independence and marked the beginning of Jackson's rise to national prominence. Hailed as "terrifically readable" by the Chicago Sun Times, The Battle of New Orleans is popular American history at its best, bringing to life a landmark battle that helped define the character of the United States.
Download or read book The Reign of Andrew Jackson written by Frederic Austin Ogg and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life and Public Services of General Andrew Jackson written by John Stilwell Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reign of Andrew Jackson written by Austin Frederi Ogg and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Young Hickory written by Hendrik Booraem and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the events which shaped the life of Andrew Jackson, providing information on his family's immigration from Ireland, his childhood experiences, and his involvement in the Revolutionary War.
Download or read book The Life of Andrew Jackson written by John Spencer Bassett and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Andrew Jackson Southerner written by Mark R. Cheathem and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans view Andrew Jackson as a frontiersman who fought duels, killed Indians, and stole another man's wife. Historians have traditionally presented Jackson as a man who struggled to overcome the obstacles of his backwoods upbringing and helped create a more democratic United States. In his compelling new biography of Jackson, Mark R. Cheathem argues for a reassessment of these long-held views, suggesting that in fact "Old Hickory" lived as an elite southern gentleman. Jackson grew up along the border between North Carolina and South Carolina, a district tied to Charleston, where the city's gentry engaged in the transatlantic marketplace. Jackson then moved to North Carolina, where he joined various political and kinship networks that provided him with entrée into society. In fact, Cheathem contends, Jackson had already started to assume the characteristics of a southern gentleman by the time he arrived in Middle Tennessee in 1788. After moving to Nashville, Jackson further ensconced himself in an exclusive social order by marrying the daughter of one of the city's cofounders, engaging in land speculation, and leading the state militia. Cheathem notes that through these ventures Jackson grew to own multiple plantations and cultivated them with the labor of almost two hundred slaves. His status also enabled him to build a military career focused on eradicating the nation's enemies, including Indians residing on land desired by white southerners. Jackson's military success eventually propelled him onto the national political stage in the 1820s, where he won two terms as president. Jackson's years as chief executive demonstrated the complexity of the expectations of elite white southern men, as he earned the approval of many white southerners by continuing to pursue Manifest Destiny and opposing the spread of abolitionism, yet earned their ire because of his efforts to fight nullification and the Second Bank of the United States. By emphasizing Jackson's southern identity -- characterized by violence, honor, kinship, slavery, and Manifest Destiny -- Cheathem's narrative offers a bold new perspective on one of the nineteenth century's most renowned and controversial presidents.
Download or read book Civil and Military History of Andrew Jackson Late Major general in the Army of the United States and Commander in chief of the Southern Division written by Samuel Putnam Waldo and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
