David Stephen Heidler
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
ix, 433 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Andrew Jackson was volatile and prone to violence, and well into his forties his sole claim on the public's affections derived from his victory in a thirty-minute battle at New Orleans in early 1815. Yet those in his immediate circle believed he was a great man who should be president of the United States. Jackson's election in 1828 is usually viewed as a result of the expansion of democracy. Historians David and Jeanne Heidler argue that he actually...