
The First Populist
The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson
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A timely, “solidly researched [and] gracefully written” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of President Andrew Jackson that offers a fresh reexamination of this charismatic figure in the context of American populism—connecting the complex man and the politician to a longer history of division, dissent, and partisanship that has come to define our current times.
Andrew Jackson rose from rural poverty in the Carolinas to become the dominant figure in American politics between Jefferson and Lincoln. His reputation, however, defies easy description. Some regard him as the symbol of a powerful democratic movement that saw early 19th-century voting rights expanded for propertyless white men. Others stress Jackson’s prominent role in removing Native American peoples from their ancestral lands, which then became the center of a thriving southern cotton kingdom worked by more than a million enslaved people.
A combative, self-defined champion of “farmers, mechanics, and laborers,” Jackson railed against East Coast elites and Virginia aristocracy, fostering a brand of democracy that struck a chord with the common man and helped catapult him into the presidency. “The General,” as he was known, was the first president to be born of humble origins, first orphan, and thus far the only former prisoner of war to occupy the office.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, The First Populist takes a fresh look at Jackson’s public career, including the pivotal Battle of New Orleans (1815) and the bitterly fought Bank War; it reveals his marriage to an already married woman and a deadly duel with a Nashville dandy, and analyzes his magnetic hold on the public imagination of the country in the decades between the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
“By assessing the frequent comparisons between Jackson and Donald Trump…the hope is that a fresh understanding of the divisive times of ‘the country’s original anti-establishment president’ might shed light on our own” (The Christian Science Monitor).
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A major new biography of the fourth US president, from New York Times best-selling author Lynne Cheney. James Madison was a true genius of the early republic, the leader who did more than any other to create the nation we know today. This majestic new biography tells his story. Outwardly reserved, Madison was the intellectual driving force behind the Constitution. His visionary political philosophy was a crucial factor behind the Constitution’s ratification, and his political savvy was of major importance in getting the new government underway.
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Great man, great ideas, muddling book
- De NDFletch en 06-13-15
De: Lynne Cheney
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A Country of Vast Designs
- James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
- De: Robert W. Merry
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 18 h y 58 m
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When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over the rich lands of the Oregon Territory, which included what is now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Texas, not yet part of the Union, was threatened by a more powerful Mexico. And the territories north and west of Texas---what would become California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and part of Colorado---belonged to Mexico.
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A Decent Overview of Polk's Presidency
- De James en 06-20-10
De: Robert W. Merry
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Without Precedent
- Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
- De: Joel Richard Paul
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 17 h y 11 m
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No member of America's founding generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more to preserve the delicate unity of the fledgling United States. From the nation's founding in 1776 and for the next 40 years, Marshall was at the center of every political battle. As Chief Justice of the United States - the longest-serving in history—he established the independence of the judiciary and the supremacy of the federal Constitution and courts.
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Scholarly and Accessible
- De Diana Black Kennedy en 03-01-18
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A Leap in the Dark
- The Struggle to Create the American Republic
- De: John Ferling
- Narrado por: Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
- Duración: 23 h y 50 m
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It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations.
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Loved every minute!
- De Richard en 03-03-15
De: John Ferling
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Founding Rivals
- Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rights, and the Election that Saved a Nation
- De: Chris DeRose
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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In 1789, James Madison and James Monroe ran against each other for Congress-the only time that two future presidents have contested a congressional seat. But what was at stake, as author Chris DeRose reveals in Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rights, and the Election That Saved a Nation, was more than personal ambition. This was a race that determined the future of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the very definition of the United States of America.
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A Must for Anyone Interested in the Constitution
- De Garshom L. Arkoff en 07-09-13
De: Chris DeRose
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Polk
- The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
- De: Walter R. Borneman
- Narrado por: Alan Nebelthau
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
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This is a major political biography of a great American president - who won a war, transformed the government, and doubled the size of the United States...in four years. When Polk was sworn in as the 11th president, what followed was one of the most consequential presidencies in history.
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Polk: One of our most important Preidents
- De Rik GNV en 10-12-08
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Andrew Jackson
- His Life and Times
- De: H.W. Brands
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 25 h y 57 m
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The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson—the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy and set a still young America on its path to greatness—told by the bestselling author of The First American.
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Very Thorough
- De Eric en 02-07-06
De: H.W. Brands
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The Three Lives of James Madison
- Genius, Partisan, President
- De: Noah Feldman
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 34 h y 12 m
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Over the course of his life, James Madison changed the United States three times: First, he designed the Constitution, led the struggle for its adoption and ratification, then drafted the Bill of Rights. As an older, cannier politician, he cofounded the original Republican party, setting the course of American political partisanship. Finally, having pioneered a foreign policy based on economic sanctions, he took the United States into a high-risk conflict, becoming the first wartime president and, despite the odds, winning.
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Cogently organized, meticulously balanced
- De Diana Black Kennedy en 06-15-18
De: Noah Feldman
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The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789
- De: Edward Larson
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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Although Washington is often overlooked in most accounts of the period, this masterful new history from Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J. Larson brilliantly uncovers Washington's vital role in shaping the Convention - and shows how it was only with Washington’s support and his willingness to serve as President that the states were brought together and ratified the Constitution, thereby saving the country.
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A readable history
- De Jean en 10-21-14
De: Edward Larson
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Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America
- A Biography
- De: William E. Gienapp
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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In Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, historian William Gienapp provides a remarkably concise, up-to-date, and vibrant biography of the most revered figure in United States history. While the heart of the book focuses on the Civil War, Gienapp begins with a finely etched portrait of Lincoln's early life, from pioneer farm boy to politician and lawyer in Springfield, to his stunning election as 16th president of the United States. Students will see how Lincoln grew during his years in office and much more.
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A great man we could use in the current political climate.
- De dts67 en 01-30-24
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James Madison
- De: Richard Brookhiser
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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Eminent historian Richard Brookhiser presents a vivid portrait of James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution” and one of America's greatest statesmen.
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OK book but not a biography
- De Joel Mayer en 08-05-12
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A Magnificent Catastrophe
- The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
- De: Edward J. Larson
- Narrado por: John Dossett
- Duración: 6 h
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A Magnificent Catastrophe tells the story of the most perverse, bizarre, nail-biting, and influential election battle ever in U.S. history: America's first true presidential campaign, and a contest so important to the future of the country that Jefferson referred to it as "the second American Revolution" because the outcome resolved so much unfinished business about just what kind of government we would have. This election in many ways determined just how democratic a country we would be.
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Get this if you have to use it for a class!!!
- De Gabriel en 03-03-17
De: Edward J. Larson
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Andrew Jackson
- His Life and Times
- De: H.W. Brands
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 25 h y 57 m
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The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson—the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy and set a still young America on its path to greatness—told by the bestselling author of The First American.
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Very Thorough
- De Eric en 02-07-06
De: H.W. Brands
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American Lion
- Andrew Jackson in the White House
- De: Jon Meacham
- Narrado por: Richard McGonagle
- Duración: 17 h y 16 m
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Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson's election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad.
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Unlikable Old Hickory
- De John M en 01-05-09
De: Jon Meacham
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The Life of Andrew Jackson
- De: Marquis James
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 33 h y 7 m
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Andrew Jackson was easily one of the most mercurially energetic personalities in American history. Along with Washington and Lincoln, Jackson also ranks as one of the three most consequential US presidents. After Jackson, the nation would never be the same. His life in the Tennessee wilderness as lawyer, planter, and soldier was legendary, as were his duels, his racing stables, his whirlwind romance with Rachel Donelson, and his victory over the British at New Orleans. Born in South Carolina in 1767, Jackson came of age during the hardship and cruelties of the Revolutionary War.
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Jefferson and Hamilton
- The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
- De: John Ferling
- Narrado por: Bo Foxworth
- Duración: 18 h y 53 m
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The decade of the 1790s has been called the "age of passion". Fervor ran high as rival factions battled over the course of the new republic - each side convinced that the other's goals would betray the legacy of the Revolution so recently fought and so dearly won. All understood as well that what was at stake was not a moment's political advantage, but the future course of the American experiment in democracy. In this epochal debate, no two figures loomed larger than Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton.
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Biased and low quality
- De Yolanda Yzquierdo en 12-04-22
De: John Ferling
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Pershing
- The Great Generals Series
- De: Jim Lacey
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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In this persuasive biography, Jim Lacey sheds light on General Pershing's legacy as the nation's first modern combat commander, setting the standard for today's four-star officers. When the U.S. entered into World War I in 1917, they did so with inadequate forces. In just over a year, Pershing built and hurled a one-million-man army against 40 battle-hardened German divisions.
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Very Listenable
- De D. Martin en 04-20-13
De: Jim Lacey
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A Brutal Reckoning
- Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
- De: Peter Cozzens
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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The Creek War is one of the most tragic episodes in American history, leading to the greatest loss of Native American life on what is now U.S. soil. A conflict involving not only white Americans and Native Americans, but also the British and the Spanish, the Creek War opened the Deep South to the Cotton Kingdom, setting the stage for the American Civil War yet to come. No other single Indian conflict had such significant impact on the fate of America—and A Brutal Reckoning is the definitive book on this forgotten chapter in our history.
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Non-political history
- De Ryan S. en 02-09-25
De: Peter Cozzens
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Andrew Jackson
- His Life and Times
- De: H.W. Brands
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 25 h y 57 m
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The extraordinary story of Andrew Jackson—the colorful, dynamic, and forceful president who ushered in the Age of Democracy and set a still young America on its path to greatness—told by the bestselling author of The First American.
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Very Thorough
- De Eric en 02-07-06
De: H.W. Brands
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American Lion
- Andrew Jackson in the White House
- De: Jon Meacham
- Narrado por: Richard McGonagle
- Duración: 17 h y 16 m
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Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson's election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad.
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Unlikable Old Hickory
- De John M en 01-05-09
De: Jon Meacham
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The Life of Andrew Jackson
- De: Marquis James
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 33 h y 7 m
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Andrew Jackson was easily one of the most mercurially energetic personalities in American history. Along with Washington and Lincoln, Jackson also ranks as one of the three most consequential US presidents. After Jackson, the nation would never be the same. His life in the Tennessee wilderness as lawyer, planter, and soldier was legendary, as were his duels, his racing stables, his whirlwind romance with Rachel Donelson, and his victory over the British at New Orleans. Born in South Carolina in 1767, Jackson came of age during the hardship and cruelties of the Revolutionary War.
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Jefferson and Hamilton
- The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
- De: John Ferling
- Narrado por: Bo Foxworth
- Duración: 18 h y 53 m
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The decade of the 1790s has been called the "age of passion". Fervor ran high as rival factions battled over the course of the new republic - each side convinced that the other's goals would betray the legacy of the Revolution so recently fought and so dearly won. All understood as well that what was at stake was not a moment's political advantage, but the future course of the American experiment in democracy. In this epochal debate, no two figures loomed larger than Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton.
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Biased and low quality
- De Yolanda Yzquierdo en 12-04-22
De: John Ferling
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Pershing
- The Great Generals Series
- De: Jim Lacey
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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In this persuasive biography, Jim Lacey sheds light on General Pershing's legacy as the nation's first modern combat commander, setting the standard for today's four-star officers. When the U.S. entered into World War I in 1917, they did so with inadequate forces. In just over a year, Pershing built and hurled a one-million-man army against 40 battle-hardened German divisions.
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Very Listenable
- De D. Martin en 04-20-13
De: Jim Lacey
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A Brutal Reckoning
- Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
- De: Peter Cozzens
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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The Creek War is one of the most tragic episodes in American history, leading to the greatest loss of Native American life on what is now U.S. soil. A conflict involving not only white Americans and Native Americans, but also the British and the Spanish, the Creek War opened the Deep South to the Cotton Kingdom, setting the stage for the American Civil War yet to come. No other single Indian conflict had such significant impact on the fate of America—and A Brutal Reckoning is the definitive book on this forgotten chapter in our history.
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Non-political history
- De Ryan S. en 02-09-25
De: Peter Cozzens
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The Birth of Modern Politics
- Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828
- De: Lynn Hudson Parson
- Narrado por: Milton Bagby
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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The 1828 presidential election, which pitted Major General Andrew Jackson against incumbent John Quincy Adams, has long been hailed as a watershed moment in American political history. It was the contest in which an unlettered, hot-tempered southwestern frontiersman, trumpeted by his supporters as a genuine man of the people, soundly defeated a New England "aristocrat" whose education and political resume were as impressive as any ever seen in American public life.
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a very good popular history book
- De D. Littman en 01-29-10
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Founding Partisans
- Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 16 h y 29 m
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To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be.
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Very educational
- De Mark Mears en 02-21-24
De: H. W. Brands
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Jacksonland
- President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
- De: Steve Inskeep
- Narrado por: Steve Inskeep
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two men - President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross - who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. Jacksonland is their story.
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Fantastic and Thoughtful
- De Elizabeth Westbrook en 05-05-16
De: Steve Inskeep
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The Jazz Age President
- Defending Warren G. Harding
- De: Ryan S. Walters
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
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He's the butt of political jokes, frequently subjected to ridicule, and almost never absent a "Worst Presidents" list where he most often ends up at the bottom. Historians have labeled him the "Worst President Ever," "Dead Last," "Unfit," and "Incompetent," to name but a few. Many contemporaries were equally cruel. H. L. Mencken called him a "nitwit." To Alice Roosevelt Longworth, he was a "slob."
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Excellent clarification
- De Scott J. Jones MD en 08-03-22
De: Ryan S. Walters
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Andrew Jackson’s America: 1824-1850
- The Drama of American History
- De: Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier
- Narrado por: Jim Manchester
- Duración: 2 h y 2 m
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Andrew Jackson’s America examines the events and personalities, particularly President Andrew Jackson, that shaped the development of the United States during the first half of the 19th century. Learn about the influence that Andrew Jackson had on the way America developed, the industrial revolution and the beginning of the two-party system.
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- De Trebla en 07-09-16
De: Christopher Collier, y otros
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Heirs of the Founders
- The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery.
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Excellent
- De Jean en 12-04-18
De: H. W. Brands
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President Garfield
- From Radical to Unifier
- De: CW Goodyear
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 17 h y 54 m
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In “the most comprehensive Garfield biography in almost fifty years” (The Wall Street Journal), C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive firebrand and conservative compromiser; Union war hero and founder of the first Department of Education; Supreme Court attorney and abolitionist preacher; mathematician and canalman; crooked election-fixed and clean-government champion; Congressional chieftain and gentleman-farmer; the last president to be born in a log cabin; the second to be assassinated.
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Excellent
- De Krmartin en 08-19-23
De: CW Goodyear
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Mr. Jefferson's Hammer
- William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy
- De: Robert M. Owens
- Narrado por: Doug McDonald
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now explores that era through the lens of Harrison’s career, providing a new synthesis of his role in the political development of Indiana Territory and in shaping Indian policy in the Old Northwest.
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Title = Truth in Advertising
- De William Jenks en 06-18-19
De: Robert M. Owens
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Klan War
- Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
- De: Fergus M. Bordewich
- Narrado por: Landon Woodson
- Duración: 16 h y 49 m
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The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as “the first organized terrorist movement in American history,” rose from the ashes of the Civil War. At its peak in the early 1870s, the Klan boasted many tens of thousands of members, no small number of them landowners, lawmen, doctors, journalists, and churchmen, as well as future governors and congressmen. And their mission was to obliterate the muscular democratic power of newly emancipated Black Americans and their white allies, often by the most horrifying means imaginable.
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a great but depressing book
- De D. Littman en 12-12-23
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A Man of Iron
- The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
- De: Troy Senik
- Narrado por: Pete Simonelli, Troy Senik
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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Grover Cleveland’s political career—a dizzying journey that saw him rise from obscure lawyer to president of the United States in just three years—was marked by contradictions. A politician of uncharacteristic honesty and principle, he was nevertheless dogged by secrets from his personal life. A believer in limited government, he pushed presidential power to its limits to combat a crippling depression, suppress labor unrest, and resist the forces of American imperialism.
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Worth the Wait!
- De Brian S Cunningham en 09-21-22
De: Troy Senik
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American Civil Wars
- A Continental History, 1850-1873
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
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The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights. Taylor relies on vivid characters to carry the story, from Joseph Hooker, whose timidity in crisis was exploited by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Union defeat at Chancellorsville, to Martin Delany and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Black abolitionists whose critical work in Canada and the United States advanced emancipation and the enrollment of Black soldiers in Union armies.
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fascinating!
- De Brandon Marken en 07-12-24
De: Alan Taylor
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America First
- Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
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Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis, aviator and popular hero Charles Lindbergh.
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Another American History Pearl from H.W. Brands
- De Paul W. Brazis en 10-05-24
De: H. W. Brands
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The First Populist
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- Ryan S.
- 08-26-24
General history from a left leaning professor
The organization and writing are good. The writing a more of a general history versus how/why Andrew Jackson was a/the first populist. Author builds to the final chapter where it becomes a subtle attack on Trump like so many general histories written since 2017. Author also, in one sentence, absolved the New England succession plot at the end of the war of 1812 as nothing of the sort with no explanation. Likely so to swing the hammer on Calhoun and the 1832 nullification event. Just know you’re listening to woke going on.
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- Evan
- 03-08-23
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Great book I highly recommend. If you like American History you will like the first progressive President. He strongly believed in a strong President always battling the establishment whether it was with Congress or the Supreme Court. Many President's want compare themselves to him Donald Trump as an example but there many differences because the age we live in.
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- tink
- 06-30-22
Very dry writing
…with minimal context - ie why did Jackson name his house ‘hermitage’? We listened to this book on a car trip and our conversation was why there was little continuity & context ‘color’…
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