San Antonio College Library

Every age creates heroes to suit its needs. For young, pioneering America of the early nineteenth century, Andrew Jackson filled that need. This book shows how Jackson captured the imagination of his contemporaries and how the ideals of the period were fused in him. It is, therefore, a study of Jackson's time rather than simply a study of the man. Concerned with defining the term "Jacksonian," the author selects meaningful episodes from Jackson's...

In a new synthesis of modern scholarship and earlier insights, this book takes a comprehensive look at the complex quarter century between John Quincy Adams and James Knox Polk. It is not a simple narrative of events but a discussion of topics and issues, many neglected until now. In these pages are not only the surface politics and economics of the era, but also the American personality, family life, medical practice, the minor "ideological" parties,...

Chronicles the political-economic struggle between President Jackson and Nicholas Biddle in the Second Bank war.

A thought-provoking study of Andrew Jackson chronicles the life and career of a self-made man who went on to become a military hero and seventh president of the United States, critically analyzing Jackson's seminal role during a turbulent era in history, the political crises and personal upheaval that surrounded him, and his legacy for the modern presidency.

The first "common man" to rise to the presidency, Jackson embodied the spirit and the vision of the emerging American nation; the term "Jacksonian democracy" is embedded in our national lexicon. Historian Brands follows Jackson from his days as rebellious youth, risking execution to free the Carolinas during the Revolutionary War, to his years as a young lawyer and congressman from the newly settled frontier state of Tennessee. As general of the Tennessee...