Was the man who lent his name to "Jacksonian America" a rough-hewn frontiersman? A powerful, victorious general? Or merely a man of will? Separating myth from reality, John William Ward here demonstrates how Andrew Jackson captured the imagination of a generation of Americans and came to represent not just leadership but the ideal of courage, foresight, and ability.
ISBN: | 9780195006995 |
Publication date: | 26th March 1963 |
Author: | John William Ward |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 286 pages |
Series: | Galaxy Books |
Genres: |
History of the Americas |