Top Selling Audiobooks Andrew Jackson
- 2. Andrew Jackson
The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson—the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of
Democracy and set a still young America on its path to greatness—told by the bestselling author of The First
American.
The most famous American of his time, Andrew Jackson is a seminal figure in American history. The first “common
man” to rise to the presidency, Jackson embodied the spirit and the vision of the emerging American nation; the term
“Jacksonian democracy” is embedded in our national lexicon.
With the sweep, passion, and attention to detail that made The First American a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a national
bestseller, historian H.W. Brands shapes a historical narrative that’s as fastpaced and compelling as the best fiction.
He follows Andrew Jackson from his days as rebellious youth, risking execution to free the Carolinas of the British
during the Revolutionary War, to his years as a young lawyer and congressman from the newly settled frontier state
of Tennessee. As general of the Tennessee militia, he put down a massive Indian uprising in the South, securing the
safety of American settlers, and his famous rout of the British at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812
made him a national hero.
But it is Jackson’s contributions as president, however, that won him a place in the pantheon of America’s greatest
leaders. A man of the people, without formal education or the family lineage of the Founding Fathers, he sought as
president to make the country a genuine democracy, governed by and for the people. Jackson, although respectful
of states’ rights, devoted himself to the preservation of the Union, whose future in that age was still very much in
question. When South Carolina, his home state, threatened to secede over the issue of slavery, Jackson promised to
march down with 100,000 federal soldiers should it dare.
In the bestselling tradition of Founding Brothers and His Excellency by Joseph Ellis and of John Adams by David
McCullough, Andrew Jackson is the first singlevolume, fulllength biography of Jackson in decades. This magisterial
