
The First Populist
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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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- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction: The Populist Persuasion
- Part I: Man on the Make
- Chapter 1: Ulster to America
- Chapter 2: Forged in War
- Chapter 3: But a Raw Lad
- Chapter 4: Western Apprentice
- Chapter 5: The Conspiracy Game
- Chapter 6: Marriage(s)
- Chapter 7: Nashville Nabob
- Chapter 8: The Outsider
- Chapter 9: Justice Jackson
- Chapter 10: Befriending Burr
- Chapter 11: The Duelist
- Part II: Hero for an Age
- Chapter 12: Erratic Rehabilitation
- Chapter 13: The Creek War
- Chapter 14: Sharp Knife
- Chapter 15: Optional Invasion
- Chapter 16: To New Orleans
- Chapter 17: A Victory More Complete
- Chapter 18: Defend or Endanger
- Part III: Warrior Politics
- Chapter 19: Removal by Another Name
- Chapter 20: The Chieftain
- Chapter 21: Phantom Letter, Full Invasion
- Chapter 22: Congressional Qualms
- Chapter 23: Florida's Revenge
- Chapter 24: Ebbing Old Republic
- Chapter 25: Call of the People
- Chapter 26: To Make a Myth: The Election of 1824
- Part IV: King of the Commons
- Chapter 27: In Slavery's Shadow
- Chapter 28: Jacksonians
- Chapter 29: First from the West
- Chapter 30: The People's Pell-Mell
- Chapter 31: New Politics, New Men
- Chapter 32: Peggy vs. the Moral Party
- Chapter 33: Economy and Expansion
- Part V: A World of Enemies
- Chapter 34: The Graves of Their Fathers
- Chapter 35: Cornering Calhoun
- Chapter 36: Kitchen Politics
- Chapter 37: Breaking the Bank
- Chapter 38: More Popular than a Party
- Part VI: Center of the Storm
- Chapter 39: The Nullification Crisis
- Chapter 40: New England Swing
- Chapter 41: Shades of Caesar
- Chapter 42: Censure
- Chapter 43: Facing Europe
- Part VII: Southern Sympathies
- Chapter 44: Jackson and the Abolitionists
- Chapter 45: Removal Redux
- Chapter 46: To Kill a President
- Chapter 47: Texas Again
- Chapter 48: The Jackson Court
- Chapter 49: The Politics of Succession
- Chapter 50: Administration's End
- Part VIII: Winter's Wages
- Chapter 51: Unquiet Retirement
- Chapter 52: The Last Push
- Chapter 53: No Terrors
- Chapter 54: Heroes and Villains
- Photographs
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Notes
- Index
- Illustration Credits
- Copyright
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