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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House - Jon Meacham, Richard McGonagle
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
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Format: audiobook
ASIN: B001L4EE06
Publisher: Books on Tape
Edition language: English
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Well-Lucubrated
Well-Lucubrated rated it
3.0 American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
A good read, but not a great one.First off, it's very short. The life of a man like Jackson is difficult to distill into less than 500 pages. For that reason, this book focuses almost exclusively on his years as President. That brings me to the next strike against it: it glosses over the formation o...
Thewanderingjew
Thewanderingjew rated it
3.0 American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Lean and long, nicknamed Old Hickory, Andrew Jackson was elected the 7th President of the United States, in 1828, at age 61, when there were only 24 states in the union. He served two terms. In 1845, when he died, three more states had been added. Orphaned at age 14, he later became a lawyer and ros...
Booklog
Booklog rated it
4.0 American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
My presidential biography cycle continues with Meacham's study of Jackson's presidential years. A lot of people have been griping, particularly the first reviewer who comes up, that this book is not detailed enough and in some cases too detailed - a criticism I kind of scratch my head over upon com...
Shelly's Book Journal
Shelly's Book Journal rated it
3.0 American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
This is the story primarily of Andrew Jackson's presidency - the things he battled and stood for. Meacham does include a brief history of Old Hickory, enough to link together some of the reasons why Jackson stood for what he did. Jackson faced a number of challenges during his 8 years in office - ...
lanewillson
lanewillson rated it
4.0 American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Imagine John Facenda, the iconic voice of NFL Films, telling a story about a man who is complex, evil, loving, tenacious, brilliant, a mass of contradiction who heroically saves the union by in part protecting its greatest failure and sin, and you will have an understanding of American Lion: Andrew ...
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