Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times.(Book review)

Parameters | September 22, 2006| | Copyright

Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times. By H. W. Brands. New York: Doubleday, 2005. 620 pages. $35.00.

In the ranks of professional historians, there are very few who can say that they have a following, but H. W. Brands can claim that accolade. Brands follows up his previous successes in full-length American biographies, T. R.: The Last Romantic (1998) and his Pulitzer-nominated The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (2002), in grand style. Not merely a biography, Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times is a captivating narrative that depicts the early ...

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