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Book SynopsisThe Rise of Andrew Jackson recounts our seventh president''s unlikely ascent to the highest office in the land. Born poor in what became the border region between North and South Carolina, Jackson''s sole claim on the public''s affections derived from his victory in a thirty-minute battle in early 1815 on the banks of the Mississippi River. A disputatious, often cruel man, he did not seem cut out for any public office, let alone the highest in the land. Yet he acquired acolytes-operatives, handlers, editors, politicians-who for more than a decade labored to make him the President of the United States, and who finally succeeded in 1828.
The acclaimed historians David and Jeanne Heidler are the first to examine Jackson''s rise by looking primarily at the men (and they were all men) who made it possible, among them future president Martin van Buren, the Karl Rove of his day; Sam Houston, later a leader of the Texas Revolution; and John Overton, Jackson''s onetime roommate
