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- catalog abstract ""What transformed a frontier bully into the seventh president of the United States? A southerner obsessed with personal honor who threatened his enemies with duels to the death, a passionate man who fled to Spanish Mississippi with the love of his life before she was divorced, Andrew Jackson of Tennessee left a vast personal correspondence detailing his stormy relationship with the world of early America. He helped shape the American personality, yet he remains largely unknown to most modern readers. Now historian Andrew Burstein (The Inner Jefferson, America's Jubilee) brings back Jackson with all his audacity and hot-tempered rhetoric." "Burstein gives us our first major reevaluation of Jackson's life in a generation. Unlike the extant biographies, Burstein examines Jackson's close relationships, discovering how the candidate advanced his political chances through a network of army friends - some famous, like Sam Houston, who became a hero himself; others, equally important, who have been lost to history until now. Yet due to his famous temper, Jackson ultimately lost his closest confidants to the opposition party." "The Passions of Andrew Jackson includes a fresh interpretation of Jackson's role in the Aaron Burr conspiracy and offers a more intimate view of the backcountry conditions and political setting that shaped the Tennessean's controversial understanding of democracy. This is the dynamic story of a larger-than-life American brought down to his authentic earthiness and thoughtfully demythologized. In a provocative conclusion, Burstein relates Jackson to the presidents with whom he was and still is often compared, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12772314.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""What transformed a frontier bully into the seventh president of the United States? A southerner obsessed with personal honor who threatened his enemies with duels to the death, a passionate man who fled to Spanish Mississippi with the love of his life before she was divorced, Andrew Jackson of Tennessee left a vast personal correspondence detailing his stormy relationship with the world of early America. He helped shape the American personality, yet he remains largely unknown to most modern readers. Now historian Andrew Burstein (The Inner Jefferson, America's Jubilee) brings back Jackson with all his audacity and hot-tempered rhetoric." "Burstein gives us our first major reevaluation of Jackson's life in a generation. Unlike the extant biographies, Burstein examines Jackson's close relationships, discovering how the candidate advanced his political chances through a network of army friends - some famous, like Sam Houston, who became a hero himself; others, equally important, who have been lost to history until now. Yet due to his famous temper, Jackson ultimately lost his closest confidants to the opposition party." "The Passions of Andrew Jackson includes a fresh interpretation of Jackson's role in the Aaron Burr conspiracy and offers a more intimate view of the backcountry conditions and political setting that shaped the Tennessean's controversial understanding of democracy. This is the dynamic story of a larger-than-life American brought down to his authentic earthiness and thoughtfully demythologized. In a provocative conclusion, Burstein relates Jackson to the presidents with whom he was and still is often compared, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-284) and index.".
- catalog description "The formative frontier -- Fraternity and defiant honor -- Judging character : Burr -- Engaging the enemy : New Orleans -- Political instincts -- The avenging president -- Courting posterity.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 292 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Passions of Andrew Jackson.".
- catalog identifier "0375414282 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0375714049 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Passions of Andrew Jackson.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House,".
- catalog relation "Passions of Andrew Jackson.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973.5/6/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "E382 .B96 2003".
- catalog subject "Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 Psychology.".
- catalog subject "Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.".
- catalog subject "Presidents United States Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The formative frontier -- Fraternity and defiant honor -- Judging character : Burr -- Engaging the enemy : New Orleans -- Political instincts -- The avenging president -- Courting posterity.".
- catalog title "The passions of Andrew Jackson / Andrew Burstein.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".