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Title: The Life of Andrew Jackson by Robert V. Remini ISBN: 0-06-093735-1 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Making lemonade from a 19th Century lemon?
Comment: Andrew Jackson looked like a bit of a lemon (as far as the American voter was concerned) when he went into the White House. When he came out, he looked much better. How did he do it?
This is a careful condensation of Remini's 3-volume work on Jackson that incorporates the result of more recent scholarship and research. Remini describes our 7th President's struggle to overcome his reputation as a violent and vengeful man who was almost a social outcast in Western Tennessee.
Remini analyses Jackson's shortcomings, which include some very human mistakes, and his inability to bring Texas into the Union. Emphasizing that Jackson "served the American people extremely well" by preserving the integrity of the Union, saving the government from misrule, and liquidating the public debt, Remini shows why Jackson was more popular when he left the White House than he was when he went in. Don't look for an in-depth political treatise here but you will find sufficient material to give you a well-rounded, sympathetic look at a complicated man in an equally complicated time.
It's not meant to be comprehensive -- you'll find that in the larger work -- this is meant to be what it is. It's a fascinating, readable and entertaining story of how that political turn-about happened, written by one of America's foremost biographers.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Book on Jackson
Comment: Robert Remini is the expert on Andrew Jackson and the Age of Jackson. This book, which is a culmination of many of his works on Jackson, is a masterpiece of biography. Highly readable, Remini shows why Jackson was one of the best Presidents we ever had. Remini does a good job on not just what Jackson did, but the man himself. Jackson's personality and how and why he was the way he was is a major focus of Remini. I especially enjoyed reading about Jackson's duels and his actions during the South Carolina Nulification. It is not political correct to like Jackson, but you can not deny he was one of our best and most important Presidents. This is a great biography of a great man.
Rating: 1
Summary: Andy,..quite a man
Comment: Better than fiction, just good reading, entertaining and interesting.
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Title: John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life by Paul C. Nagel ISBN: 0674479408 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity by Harry Ammon ISBN: 0813912660 Publisher: University of Virginia Press Pub. Date: March, 1990 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Washington: The Indispensable Man by James Thomas Flexner ISBN: 0316286168 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 22 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: James Madison: A Biography by Ralph Louis Ketcham ISBN: 0813912652 Publisher: University of Virginia Press Pub. Date: May, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis ISBN: 0679764410 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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