02140nam a2200337u 4500 57754271 MeVbMML 20250701163338.0 ta 100706s2005 nyuabcf b 001 0beng 2005042178 0385507380 26.95 9780385507387 DLC DLC BAKER IK2 OCO C#P YBM UtOrBLW AJM n-us--- BYNN 973.5/6/092 B 22 B .J132Bah Brands, H. W 21010 Andrew Jackson : H.W. Brands his life and times / 1st ed New York : Doubleday, c2005 xi, 620 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm Includes bibliographical references (p. [597]-607) and index Child of the revolution (1767-1805) -- Son of the West (1805-1814) -- American hero (1814-1821) -- The people's president (1821-1837) -- Patriarch of democracy (1837- 1845) 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 militia, 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 presidency that won him a place among America's greatest leaders. A man of the people, he sought to make the country a genuine democracy, governed by and for the people. Although respectful of states' rights, when his home state threatened to secede, he promised to march down with 100,000 federal soldiers should it dare. From the publisher. Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 21006 Presidents United States Biography 12546 United States Politics and government 1829-1837 21009 ddc BOOK 2951 2951 0 0 ABELJ abelj B 2016-10-26 0 B JACK 13625 2016-10-26 26.95 2016-10-26 BOOK