Download App
>> | LShop | >> | Book | >> | Biography & True Sto... | >> | Biography: General | >> | American Lion: Andre... |
ISBN
:
9781400063253
Publisher
:
Random House Publishing Group
Subject
:
Biography: General
Binding
:
Hardcover
Pages
:
483
Year
:
1111
₹
5388.0
₹
4094.0
Buy Now
Shipping charges are applicable for books below Rs. 101.0
View Details(Imported Edition) Estimated Shipping Time : 20-23 Business Days
View DetailsDescription
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson’s election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad. To tell the saga of Jackson’s presidency, acclaimed author Jon Meacham goes inside the Jackson White House. Drawing on newly discovered family letters and papers, he details the human drama–the family, the women, and the inner circle of advisers–that shaped Jackson’s private world through years of storm and victory.One of our most significant yet dimly recalled presidents, Jackson was a battle-hardened warrior, the founder of the Democratic Party, and the architect of the presidency as we know it. His story is one of violence, sex, courage, and tragedy. With his powerful persona, his evident bravery, and his mystical connection to the people, Jackson moved the White House from the periphery of government to the center of national action, articulating a vision of change that challenged entrenched interests to heed the popular will–or face his formidable wrath. The greatest of the presidents who have followed Jackson in the White House–from Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to FDR to Truman–have found inspiration in his example, and virtue in his vision.Jackson was the most contradictory of men. The architect of the removal of Indians from their native lands, he was warmly sentimental and risked everything to give more power to ordinary citizens. He was, in short, a lot like his country: alternately kind and vicious, brilliant and blind; and a man who fought a lifelong war to keep the republic safe–no matter what it took. Jon Meacham in American Lion has delivered the definitive human portrait of a pivotal president who forever changed the American presidency–and America itself.
Author Biography
Jon Meacham is the editor of Newsweek and author of American Lion and the New York Times bestsellers Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship and American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation. He lives in New York City with his wife and children.
Related Items
-
of
Boy on the Lion Throne: The Childhood of the 14th Dalai Lama
Thomas J. Csordas
Starts At
1163.0
1616.0
28% OFF
Jackson's Way: Andrew Jackson and the People of the Western Waters
John Buchanan
Starts At
1225.0
1702.0
28% OFF
The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs Disraeli
Richard Aldous
Starts At
1009.0
1383.0
27% OFF
Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace (Vintage)
Avi Shlaim
Starts At
467.0
599.0
22% OFF
Complications: Notes from the Life of a Young Surgeon
Atul Gawande
Starts At
242.0
299.0
19% OFF
Freedom from Fear and Other Writings: Revised Edition
Aung San Suu Kyi
Starts At
379.0
499.0
24% OFF