Andrew Jackson

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - The Carolina Frontier
3. Chapter Two - Soldier of the Revolution
4. Chapter Three - Law and Ambition
5. Chapter Four - Rachel and Respectability
6. Chapter Five - Duelist, General, Politician
7. Chapter Six - The Creek War
8. Chapter Seven - New Orleans
9. Chapter Eight - The People’s President
10. Chapter Nine - Indian Removal
11. Chapter Ten - The Bank War
12. Chapter Eleven - A Divided Union
13. Chapter Twelve - Legacy in Bronze

Excerpt

PROLOGUE THE PORTRAIT IS everywhere. Sharp coat. Steel gaze. Hair like a powdered flame. The seventh president of the United States stares out from history with a look that says, I dared you to forget me. And we didn’t. We built cities on his name. We carved him into mountains. We taught children to salute his grit. And we printed his face on the twenty-dollar bill, the most circulated American currency in the world. Andrew Jackson is remembered as a man of action. Of war. Of will. Of principle. He fought for the Union. He fought for the people. He fought for respect and knew how to earn it. But principle is a tricky word. It can mean conviction. It can also mean obsession. It can drive a...