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American lion : Andrew Jackson in the White House
Meacham, Jon
Adult Nonfiction E382 .M43 2008
Meacham, Jon
Adult Nonfiction E382 .M43 2008
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| Contents | Page |
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| A Note on the Text | p. xiii |
| Principal Characters | p. xv |
| Prologue: With the Feelings of a Father: The White House, Washington, Winter 1832-33 | p. xvii |
| I - The Love of Country, Fame and Honor: Beginnings to Late 1830 | |
| 1 - Andy Will Fight His Way in the World | p. 3 |
| 2 - Follow Me and I'll Save You Yet | p. 20 |
| 3 - A Marriage, a Defeat, and a Victory | p. 41 |
| 4 - You Know Best, My Dear | p. 52 |
| 5 - Ladies' Wars Are Always Fierce and Hot | p. 70 |
| 6 - A Busybody Presbyterian Clergyman | p. 86 |
| 7 - My White and Red Children | p. 91 |
| 8 - Major Eaton Has Spoken of Resigning | p. 98 |
| 9 - An Opinion of the President Alone | p. 114 |
| 10 - Liberty and Union, Now and Forever | p. 124 |
| 11 - General Jackson Rules by His Personal Popularity | p. 135 |
| II - I Will Die With the Union: Late 1830 to 1834 | |
| 12 - I Have Been Left to Sup Alone | p. 157 |
| 13 - A Mean and Scurvy Piece of Business | p. 177 |
| 14 - Now Let Him Enforce It | p. 198 |
| 15 - The Fury of a Chained Panther | p. 208 |
| 16 - Hurra for the Hickory Tree! | p. 218 |
| 17 - A Dreadful Crisis of Excitement and Violence | p. 222 |
| 18 - The Mad Project of Disunion | p. 227 |
| 19 - We Are Threatened to Have Our Throats Cut | p. 238 |
| 20 - Great Is the Stake Placed in Our Hands | p. 248 |
| 21 - My Mind Is Made Up | p. 254 |
| 22 - He Appeared to Feel as a Father | p. 260 |
| 23 - The People, Sir, Are with Me | p. 266 |
| 24 - We Are in the Midst of a Revolution | p. 275 |
| III - The Evening of His Days: 1834 to the End | |
| 25 - So You Want War | p. 283 |
| 26 - A Dark, Lawless, and Insatiable Ambition! | p. 286 |
| 27 - There Is a Rank Due to the United States Among Nations | p. 291 |
| 28 - The Wretched Victim of a Dreadful Delusion | p. 298 |
| 29 - How Would You Like to Be a Slave? | p. 302 |
| 30 - The Strife About the Next Presidency | p. 307 |
| 31 - Not One Would Have Ever Got Out Alive | p. 315 |
| 32 - I Fear Emily Will Not Recover | p. 321 |
| 33 - The President Will Go Out Triumphantly | p. 334 |
| 34 - The Shock Is Great, and Grief Universal | p. 340 |
| Epilogue: He Still Lives | p. 355 |
| Author's Note and Acknowledgments | p. 363 |
| Notes | p. 371 |
| Bibliography | p. 449 |
| Illustration Credits | p. 463 |
| Index | p. 465 |
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