JAMES: Andrew Jackson: (Two-Vol Set) (Library of Presidents, # 7) (Easton, '87)

Description: TITLE: Andrew Jackson: Volume 1: The Border Captain / Volume 2: Portrait of a President (Two-Volume Set) (Easton Library of the Presidents, No. 7) AUTHOR: James, Marquis AUTHOR 2 (if applicable): n/a AUTHOR 3 (if applicable): n/a ILLUSTRATOR (if applicable): n/a PUBLISHER: The Easton Press, Date: 1987 ISBN: N/A (pre-ISBN publication) FORMAT: Leatherbound, 588/546 pages EDITION: First Edition Thus PRINTING [if applicable]: 1st Printing (No Later Stated) BOOK CONDITION: Very Good JACKET CONDITION: No Jacket (As Issued) DIMENSIONS (if available): 9.25 x 6.50 x 2.25 in. approx. KEYWORDS: President, United States, Easton Library,Andrew Jackson, 7th President, America, 1800s, 19th Century, Biography, History, First Americans, DESCRIPTION: From the Collector's Notes: Volume I: The Border Captain A native of the Waxhaw Settlement, in the Carolina wilderness, and nurtured in poverty, Andrew Jackson was a prime example of the American credo that anybody can become President. Thanks to his self-confident brashness and general acumen, Jackson also came to typify that other American dream: "from rags to riches." Moreover, despite his short temper, brusque manner, and lack of education, he was to become—in the heart of the common man-one of the most beloved of our Presidents. The American Revolution was in full swing when thirteen-year-old Andrew Jackson joined the Army as a courier and was captured by the British. An officer cut the youth's hand to the bone when he refused to clean his boots, thus helping to make Jackson a sworn enemy of Britain. When released, he opted for the legal profession and managed to study enough law to pass the North Carolina bar in 1787 and to become a public prosecutor in Nashville, in the adjacent territory of Tennessee. In 1796 Jackson won his first elective office as congressman from the newly admitted state of Tennessee. A year later he was elected to the U.S. Senate, but resigned in 1798 to become a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. He served in that post for six years before resigning, at the age of thirty-seven, in order to resume private practice and the life of a prosperous cotton planter. But the War of 1812 brought the rambunctious politician back to public life. As Major General he shattered Indian power in the South, captured Pensacola, and defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans. "Old Hickory" became a household word throughout the Republic. Published in 1933, Andrew Jackson: The Border Captain, which follows Jackson's career through 1821, brought its author unstinted praise. Born in Springfield, Missouri, in 1891, Marquis James had started out as a reporter and attained responsible editorial posts on the top Chicago and New York newspapers. Volume II: Portrait of a President The election of "Old Hickory" to the Presidency in 1828 marked an historic transfer of power. Four of the first six Presidents had been decorous Southern aristocrats from Virginia; the other two had been products of the Massachusetts oligarchy. With Andrew Jackson the old order was yielding authority to the rising middle class-the Jacksonian democracy. It was through the efforts of this group that there came into being the modern mass-based Democratic Party. As we are shown in this second volume of the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson, his was the first Presidential contest in which most electors were chosen, not by the state legislatures, but directly by the voters. The American himself, he wielded executive power the way he had been accustomed to handling his firearms. "King Andrew I," as he was called by contemporary cartoonists, began by arbitrarily firing federal workers and dispensing the spoils of victory to old cronies, without great regard to their qualifications. Where his predecessors had invoked the veto a total of nine times in all-and on strictly constitutional grounds —Jackson alone vetoed a dozen bills, some because he just didn't like them. To the delight of the ordinary citizen, his Presidential actions were inspired by a deep feeling for the common man. He was simply making sure that the government would never become a perpetual "engine for the support of the few at the expense of the many." A prime example was his handling of the Second Bank of the United States. Considering the Bank to be a monopoly which dealt in special favors and privileges, Jackson withdrew all federal deposits from it in 1833, and redeposited the monies in state banks throughout the country. With equal ruthlessness the President stamped out South Carolina's experiment in secession and obtained Congressional passage of an act providing for the removal of the Five Civilized Tribes of southeastern Indians to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). He even engineered the collection of an old debt that France had attempted to ignore. ********** These are the Easton Library of the Presidents reprints James's biography of the 7th President, originally published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company in 1933 and 1937 (reprinted in 1960 and 1964). For convenience, I have numbered these volumes based on the order of the Presidencies; numbers do not reflect the order in which the volumes were originally released. This copy includes the original collector's notes for volume 1 (volume II notes are absent) and the used custom bookplate is applied to volume II only (absent from volume I). CONDITION: Light shelf-wear to covers, fading to the top edges of the leather covers, some faint wear and mild foxing to the top and outside edge gilt, the interior of each volume appears clean and unmarked. Slight discolouration to the ribbon at the top of the spine, and foxing to the title page of volume 2. Accompanying documentation displays some ageing around the edges. A solid VG set. FROM THE BOOKSELLER: Thank you for visiting the Dactyl Books eBay Store! We are a virtual second-hand and antiquarian reseller of books specialising in History, Science, Literature, and Mystery & Detective Fiction, but we have a little bit of everything in our stocks! We are listing new items all the time, but if you are looking for a specific title or edition, don't hesitate to send it on to us and we will be glad to check and give you an opinion on how best to find your desired title. NOTES ON EDITIONS: We use a number of resources to attempt to determine the edition of the book that we are listing. My most frequently referenced resource is Zempel and Verkler's "First Editions: A Guide to Identification," although we also use other internet sources and make comparisons with listings we find on various internet sites. 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