Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy

Summary

The third and final volume of Remini's monumental biography, covering Jackson's tumultuous presidency and the political revolution he led. The book traces the Bank War, the Nullification Crisis, and Indian Removal while arguing that Jackson's appeals to the "common man" reshaped American democracy in lasting and troubling ways. Remini draws on decades of archival research to render a complicated, deeply consequential figure.