Andrew Jackson, Teri Kanefield
Andrew Jackson, Teri Kanefield
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Andrew Jackson
The Making of America

Author: Teri Kanefield

Narrator: Pete Cross

Unabridged: 4 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/13/2018


Synopsis

Born in the Carolina backwoods, Andrew Jackson joined the American Revolutionary War at the age of thirteen. After a reckless youth of gunfights, gambling, and general mischief, he rose to national fame as the general who defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans. Afterwards, Jackson ran for president as a political outsider, championing the interest of common farmers and frontiersmen. Determined to take down the wealthy, well-educated East Coast elites, he pledged to destroy the national bank, which he believed was an engine of corruption serving the interest of bankers and industrialists. A staunch nationalist, he sought to secure and expand the nation's borders. Believing that we the people included white men only, he protected the practice of slavery and opened new lands for white settlers by pushing the Native people westward. A polarizing figure in his era, Jackson ignited a populist movement that remains a powerful force in our national politics.

About Teri Kanefield

Teri Kanefield is a lawyer and writer. Her books for children have won numerous awards and distinctions, including the Jane Addams Peace Award in the Older Readers category. She lives with her family in San Luis Obispo, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alicia

I had to go a little backwards because I missed #2 of Kanefield's The Making of America series and I'm as I've already blogged about it, always a big fan of Kanefield's work and this series in particular. It does a bang-up job of discussing all of the historical/constitutional elements of "making of......more

Goodreads review by Richie

Richie’s Picks: ANDREW JACKSON: THE MAKING OF AMERICA by Teri Kanefield, Abrams, March 2018, 240p., ISBN: 978-1-4197-2840-2 "[African Americans] had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or......more

Goodreads review by David

Backwoods boy to President of USA "Andrew Jackson The Making of America" Teri Kanefield Abrams Books Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845 was a very popular president of the United States (1829 to 1837) who railed against big government and stood for the ‘common man’. Jackson didn’t trust ‘corrupt aristocracy’......more