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H.W. BRANDS is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of Lone Star Nation and The Age of Gold, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography for The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. He lives with his family in Austin, Texas.
Prologue | p. vii |
Map: Jackson's Battlefields | p. xii |
Child of the Revolution (1767-1805) | |
The Prize | p. 3 |
I Could Have Shot Him | p. 19 |
Alone | p. 29 |
Away West | p. 42 |
Shadowed Love | p. 56 |
Republicans and Revolutionaries | p. 66 |
Fighting Words | p. 83 |
Rendering Judgment | p. 96 |
Son of the West (1805-1814) | |
Conspiracy | p. 113 |
Affair of Honor | p. 129 |
All Must Feel the Injuries | p. 139 |
Master and Slaves | p. 147 |
Nor Infamy upon Us | p. 154 |
Native Genius | p. 164 |
Old Hickory | p. 174 |
Sharp Knife | p. 188 |
The River of Blood | p. 205 |
American Hero (1814-1821) | |
Peace Giver | p. 225 |
The Spanish Front | p. 236 |
Pirates and Patriots | p. 249 |
Day of Deliverance | p. 263 |
The Second Washington | p. 284 |
East by Southwest | p. 300 |
Party and Politics | p. 312 |
Judge and Executioner | p. 322 |
The Eye of the Storm | p. 332 |
Conquistador | p. 342 |
The People's President (1821-1837) | |
Cincinnatus | p. 363 |
The Death Rattle of the Old Regime | p. 376 |
Democracy Triumphant | p. 389 |
Democracy Rampant | p. 406 |
Spoils of Victory | p. 414 |
Tools of Wickedness | p. 421 |
Jacksonian Theory | p. 431 |
False Colors | p. 439 |
Attack and Counterattack | p. 455 |
Or Die with the Union | p. 472 |
Justice Marshall for the Defense | p. 483 |
Wealth versus Commonwealth | p. 494 |
An Old Friend and a New Frontier | p. 506 |
Patriarch of Democracy (1837-1845) | |
The Home Front | p. 529 |
To the Ramparts Once More | p. 541 |
The Soul of the Republic | p. 553 |
Sources | p. 561 |
Annotated Bibliography | p. 597 |
Acknowledgments | p. 608 |
Index | p. 609 |
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