Jonathan M. Atkins

Andrew Jackson

Old Hickory in Christian America

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Produktbeschreibung

A short biography of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), seventh President of the United States (1829-37) and commander of the US forces during the victorious Battle of New Orleans against the British, who was also a slave owner and instigator of the forced removal of native American tribes from their traditional territories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 129mm
• ISBN-13: 9780198852353
• ISBN-10: 0198852355
• Artikelnr.: 71903687

Autorenporträt

Jonathan M. Atkins is Professor of History at Berry College in Rome, Georgia, USA, and has published several works on politics and society in the early and antebellum American South. His most notable contributions include Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861, winner of the 1997 Tennessee History Book Award; an abridged edition of Pauline Wilcox Burke's Emily Donelson of Tennessee (2001); and From Confederation to Nation: The Early American Republic 1789-1848 (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

1: "I was brought up a rigid Presbeterian . . ."
2: "I think I would have made a pretty good saddler"
3: "May the great 'I am' bless and protect you"
4: "my reputation is dearer to me than life"
5: "the remarkable interposition of Heaven"
6: "God alone is the searcher and judge of hearts"
7: "providence will spare me untill my enemies are prostrate"
8: "I find myself a solitary mourner . . ."
9: "We want them . . . free from colision with the whites"
10: "My negroes shall be treated humanely"
11: "Providence . . . has chosen you as the guardians of freedom"
12: "I await with resignation the call of my god"