Table of Contents

Preface
Chronology of Jackson's Life, 1822-1832

1. The Convalescent
2. The Era of Corruption
3. The politics of Panic
4. Return to the Senta
5. The Theft of the Presidency
6. Organizing an Opposition
7. "Jackson and Reform"
8. Triumph and Tragedy
9. The First People's Inaugural
10. The Reform Begins
11. The Eaton Imbroglio
12. "Mind Is a Situation of Dignified Slavery"
13. The Rivalry
14. Return to Reform
15. "Brothers, Listen...You Must Submit"
16. Jacksonian Diplomacy: Beginnings
17. Founding the Washington Globe
18. The Purge
19. The Kitchen Cabinet
20. The Back War Begins
21. To Kill a Minister
22. Veto!
23. Jackson, the Union, and Democracy

Notes
Index

About the Author

Robert V. Remini is professor emeritus of history and the humanities at the Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago. The New York Times has called him "the foremost Jacksonian scholar of our time."He is the author of many books, Including biographies of Daniel Webster and Henry Clay.

Reviews

If courage is required in a biographer of Andrew Jackson, there is, at least, no shortage of literary battles where that bravery can by displayed. Professor Remini deserves his campaign medals.
—Peter Marshall, Times Literary Supplement

Jackson's significance in American political and social history is enormous. His larger-than-life personality and equally heroic convictions and prejudices changed the Presidency and the character of American political parties... [Remini] has produced a wonderful portrait, rich in detail, of a fascinating and important man and an authoritative... account of his role in American history.
—John A. Garraty, New York Times Book Review