The age of Jackson
By: by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 1945
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 577
Subjects: Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845; United States -- Politics and government -- 1829-1837
Description: This volume by the great American historian Arthur M. Schlesinger embraces the Age of Andrew Jackson from its inception to its influence upon the history of our country. It captures the historical, cultural, economic and political life of the United States as it grew from Jefferson's day to the violent early eruptions of financial and industrial forces that threatened the basic principles of our constitutional democracy. -- from http://www.amazon.com (Sep. 6, 2011).
Notes: Bibliography: p. 529-559.
"First edition ... September 1945."
"The outgrowth of a series of lectures entitled 'A reinterpretation of Jacksonian democracy' delivered at the Lowell institute in Boston in the fall of 1941."--Acknowledgements.