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Title	:	The Passions of Andrew Jackson
Author	:	Andrew Burstein
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	February 4th 2003 by Knopf
Categories	:	Biography. History. North American Hi.... American History. Politics. Presidents. Us Presidents. Nonfiction

The Passions of Andrew Jackson

Andrew Burstein

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.25 | 106 Users | 13 Reviews

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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.

Most people vaguely imagine Andrew Jackson as a jaunty warrior and man of the people, when he was much more: a power monger whom voters thought they could not do without—a man just as complex
and controversial as Jefferson or Lincoln. Declared a national hero upon his stunning victory over the British at the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, this uncompromising soldier capitalized on his fame and found the presidency within his grasp.

Yet Burstein shows that Jackson had conceived no political direction for the country. He was virtually uneducated, having grown up in a backwoods settlement in the Carolinas. His ambition to acquire wealth and achieve prominence was matched only by his confidence that he alone could restore virtue to American politics. As the “people’s choice,” this model of masculine bravado—tall, gaunt, and sickly through-out his career—persevered. He lost the election of 1824 on a technicality, owing to the manipulations of
Henry Clay. Jackson partisans ran him again, with a vengeance, so that he became, from 1829 to 1837, a president bent on shaping the country to his will. Over two terms, he secured a reputation for opposing the class of moneyed men. To his outspoken critics, he was an elected tyrant.

Burstein gives us our first major reevaluation of Jackson’s life in a generation. Unlike the extant biographies, Burstein’s 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.

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Original Title:	The Passions of Andrew Jackson
ISBN:	0375414282 (ISBN13: 9780375414282)
Edition Language:	English

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A very difficult read for minimum information. Jackson was a passionate and stubborn man with an exagerated sense of "honor." Burstein's view of Jackson had me thinking that he was like the other Southern "gentlemen" who lead the United States to a Civil War.

Being fully aware that any author can write anything he or she wants on any subject, along with the fact that the subject certainly was not perfect, I must say this book was written with such extreme animus on the subject matter, both of the individuals of the time, and of the time itself, I am thankful I only paid $1.00 for it.

An interesting bio of a very complicated man. Not the best and far from the most indepth. This one seems to concentrate on his relationships with his wife, his close associates, distant associates and enemies. Much of what made him known or infamous was left out: nothing on the Trail of Tears, one paragraph on the banking system and little about many other aspects of his life from 1816 on. What was good was the emphasis on his early life up to 1816, but this could all be gained from other bio's.

An interesting bio of a very complicated man. Not the best and far from the most indepth. This one seems to concentrate on his relationships with his wife, his close associates, distant associates and enemies. Much of what made him known or infamous was left out: nothing on the Trail of Tears, one paragraph on the banking system and little about many other aspects of his life from 1816 on. What was good was the emphasis on his early life up to 1816, but this could all be gained from other bio's.

Was kind of a drag by the end

I didn't know what to make of this book. It's not, strictly speaking, biography and it's not an examination of Jacksonian democracy. It's an attempt to approach Andrew Jackson's life by assessing his character, which would have been more effective in the context of a full-scale biography of the man who became the seventh president of the United States.There is some interesting information in here - I found the chapter on Jackson's dealings with Aaron Burr fascinating, possibly because I find

In the textbooks of yesterday Jackson was a hero of white democracy and white expansion. The modern mind does not see victory in anything that is racial so that the scholar must reconsider if there is any value in Jacksons legacy.To see my interpretation of the book:http://tastezine.blogspot.com/2019/04...