Passions of Andrew Jackson
- ISBN-10
- 1417709456
- ISBN-13
- 9781417709458
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-04
- Publisher
- Turtleback Books
- Author
- Andrew Burstein
Description
Now, with the first major reinterpretation of his life in a generation, historian Andrew Burstein brings back Jackson with all his audacity and hot-tempered rhetoric.
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