Bowers, a journalist and Democratic partisan, tells the political history of Andrew Jackson’s presidency as a series of battles. Chapters cover the Washington of the 1830s, the break with Calhoun, the Peggy Eaton affair that wrecked the cabinet, the Kitchen Cabinet, Henry Clay’s campaign of 1832, the nullification crisis and the war on Nicholas Biddle’s Bank of the United States.
Lively, openly pro-Jackson narrative history that reads more like a political novel than a monograph. Download the free EPUB.