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Jackson
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This biography traces the rise of Andrew Jackson, a frontier fighter who became a national hero before winning the presidency. Born in a log cabin, he was the first man from beyond the Alleghenies to reach the White House, and the story follows his path through war, politics and the frontier. Once in office, he championed ordinary citizens, founded what became the Democratic Party, and widened the power of the presidency.
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The book also considers his handling of the national debt and of the states' rights dispute that threatened the Union. It does not look away from his ownership of enslaved people on a Tennessee plantation, or from his support for the Indian Removal Act, which forced thousands of Native Americans to move to what is now Oklahoma.
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