Volume Three covers Jackson's reelection to the presidency and the weighty issues with which he was faced: the nullification crisis, the tragic removal of the Indians beyond the Mississippi River, the mounting violence throughout the country over slavery, and the tortuous efforts to win the annexation of Texas.
12 , 1803 , Thomas Jefferson Papers , Library of Congress , on line at American Memory web site ... also Peter J. Kastor , The Nation's Crucible : The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America ( New Haven : Yale Univ .
Copy held by Manuscripts Div. (John J. Dargan papers) includes Vol. II and III only; includes annotations and notes on endpapers indexing topics of interest to J.J. Dargan.
Margaret O'Neale Timberlake, a dark-haired, vivacious beauty, was the daughter of a popular Irish-immigrant innkeeper in Washington, well known to congressmen and other government officials. Her husband, John Timberlake, ...
Available in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson.
Keane was confident that Pakenham would be irresistible in the attack and invincible in finishing it, so the British waited. The man, the men, and the guns arrived on Christmas Day. Pakenham doubtless did not like what he saw when he ...
Andrew Jackson, a military hero, lost the presidency in 1824 to a wealthy aristocrat.
"Volume II" of the author's biography of Andrew Jackson. Continuation of: Andrew Jackson and the course of American empire, 1767-1821. Includes bibliographical references and index
... in CAJ, 1:225– 226; R. David Edmunds, Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership (New York: HarperCollins, 1984), 20, 124–125. 5. Kanon, “Kidnapping of Martha Crawley,” 7–12; “The Massacre at the Mouth of the Duck River,” [c.
A COMPANION TO THE ERA OF ANDREW JACKSON More than perhaps any other president, Andrew Jackson’s story mirrored that of the United States; from his childhood during the American Revolution, through his military actions against both Native ...
The concluding volume of this three-volume biography covers Jackson's triumphant reelection, the war against the Bank of the United States, removal of the Indians beyond the Mississippi, and the annexation...