Author: Samuel Gordon HeiskellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History ...
Author: Samuel Gordon HeiskellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Jackson
Author: Paul S. VickeryPublisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 1595554548
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book is part of The Generals, a series of books that examine the character traits of great generals in American history.
Tennessee Historical Magazine
Author: John Hibbert De WittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History
Author: Samuel Gordon HeiskellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Tennessee Historical Magazine - the Tennessee Historical Society
Author: Emily Donelson of Tennessee
Author: Pauline Wilcox BurkePublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572331372
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Andrew Donelson became the president's private secretary, and Emily assumed the role of White House hostess, filling a void left by the death of Jackson's beloved wife, Rachel, shortly after the election.".
Rachel Donelson Jackson
Author: Betty Boles EllisonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476638977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Rachel Jackson, wife of President Andrew Jackson, never wanted to be First Lady and tried to dissuade her husband from his political ambitions. Yet she publicly supported his political advancement and was the first wife of a presidential candidate to take to the campaign trail. Privy to his political decisions, she offered valued counsel, and Jackson sometimes regretted not taking her advice. Denied a traditional education by her father, Rachel's innate business savvy made the Jacksons' Tennessee plantation and businesses profitable during her husband's continual absences. This biography chronicles the life of a First Lady who rebelled against 19th-century constraints on women, overcame personal tragedies to become an inspirational figure of persistence and strength, and found herself at the center of one of the vilest presidential smear campaigns in history.
Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History
Author: Heiskell Samuel GordonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780259640646
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Andrew Jackson, Southerner
Author: Mark R. CheathemPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807151009
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Many Americans view Andrew Jackson as a frontiersman who fought duels, killed Indians, and stole another man's wife. Historians have traditionally presented Jackson as a man who struggled to overcome the obstacles of his backwoods upbringing and helped create a more democratic United States. In his compelling new biography of Jackson, Mark R. Cheathem argues for a reassessment of these long-held views, suggesting that in fact "Old Hickory" lived as an elite southern gentleman. Jackson grew up along the border between North Carolina and South Carolina, a district tied to Charleston, where the city's gentry engaged in the transatlantic marketplace. Jackson then moved to North Carolina, where he joined various political and kinship networks that provided him with entrée into society. In fact, Cheathem contends, Jackson had already started to assume the characteristics of a southern gentleman by the time he arrived in Middle Tennessee in 1788. After moving to Nashville, Jackson further ensconced himself in an exclusive social order by marrying the daughter of one of the city's cofounders, engaging in land speculation, and leading the state militia. Cheathem notes that through these ventures Jackson grew to own multiple plantations and cultivated them with the labor of almost two hundred slaves. His status also enabled him to build a military career focused on eradicating the nation's enemies, including Indians residing on land desired by white southerners. Jackson's military success eventually propelled him onto the national political stage in the 1820s, where he won two terms as president. Jackson's years as chief executive demonstrated the complexity of the expectations of elite white southern men, as he earned the approval of many white southerners by continuing to pursue Manifest Destiny and opposing the spread of abolitionism, yet earned their ire because of his efforts to fight nullification and the Second Bank of the United States. By emphasizing Jackson's southern identity -- characterized by violence, honor, kinship, slavery, and Manifest Destiny -- Cheathem's narrative offers a bold new perspective on one of the nineteenth century's most renowned and controversial presidents.
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