The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson—the colorful,
dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy
and set a still young America on its path to greatness—told by the
bestselling author of The First American.
The most famous American of his time, Andrew Jackson is a seminal
figure in American history. 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.
With the sweep, passion, and attention to detail that made The
First American a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a national bestseller,
historian H.W. Brands shapes a historical narrative that’s as
fast-paced and compelling as the best fiction. He follows Andrew
Jackson from his days as rebellious youth, risking execution to
free the Carolinas of the British 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 militia,
he put down a massive Indian uprising in the South, securing the
safety of American settlers, and his famous rout of the British at
the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 made him a
national hero.
But it is Jackson’s contributions as president, however, that won
him a place in the pantheon of America’s greatest leaders. A man of
the people, without formal education or the family lineage of the
Founding Fathers, he sought as president to make the country a
genuine democracy, governed by and for the people. Jackson,
although respectful of states’ rights, devoted himself to the
preservation of the Union, whose future in that age was still very
much in question. When South Carolina, his home state, threatened
to secede over the issue of slavery, Jackson promised to march down
with 100,000 federal soldiers should it dare.
In the bestselling tradition of Founding Brothers and His
Excellency by Joseph Ellis and of John Adams by David McCullough,
Andrew Jackson is the first single-volume, full-length biography of
Jackson in decades. This magisterial portrait of one of our
greatest leaders promises to reshape our understanding of both the
man and his era and is sure to be greeted with enthusiasm and
acclaim.
關於作者：
H.W. BRANDS is a professor of history at the University of
Texas at Austin. The author of Lone Star Nation and The
Age of Gold, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in
Biography for The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin
Franklin. He lives with his family in Austin, Texas.
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