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Published in USA
Oct 2005
640 pages
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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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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A bracing, human portrait of both a remarkable man and of American democracy as it was transformed from a "government of the people" into a "government by the people." - PW Starred Review.
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Henry William
Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived
until he went to California for college. He attended
Stanford University and studied history and mathematics.
After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a
territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to
Colorado. His wanderlust diminished after several trips
across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a
different sort, namely teaching. For nine years he
taught mathematics and history in high school and
community college. Meanwhile he resumed his formal
education, earning graduate degrees in mathematics and
history, concluding with a doctorate in history from the
University of Texas at ...
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