The Papers of Andrew Jackson: Volume 9, 1831

Author:   Daniel Feller ,  Thomas Coens ,  Laura-Eve Moss ,  Erik Alexander
Publisher:   University of Tennessee Press
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9781621900047


Pages:   1024
Publication Date:   30 October 2013
Format:   Hardback
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This volume presents more than five hundred original documents, many newly discovered, from Andrew Jackson’s third presidential year. They include Jackson’s private memoranda, intimate family letters, and correspondence with government and military officers, diplomats, Indians, political friends and foes, and ordinary citizens throughout the country. In 1831 Jackson finally cleared his contentious Cabinet, reluctantly accepting the resignations of Martin Van Buren and John Eaton and demanding that the other members follow. But in the aftermath, animosities among them boiled over, as Eaton sought duels with outgoing secretaries Samuel Ingham and John Berrien. The affair ended with gangs of armed high-government officers stalking each other in the Washington streets, and with Ingham publicly accusing Jackson of countenancing a plot to assassinate him. Meanwhile, Jackson pursued his feud with Vice-President John C. Calhoun, whom he had come to view as the diabolical manipulator of all his enemies. Enlisting a favourite Supreme Court justice to gather evidence, Jackson crafted an exposition, intended for publication, that levelled nearly fantastic charges against Calhoun and others. Through all this, the business of government ploughed on. Jackson pursued his drive to remove the Cherokees and other Indians west of the Mississippi and to undercut tribal leaders who dared resist. To squelch sectional controversy, Jackson moved to retire the national debt and reduce the tariff, while reiterating his ban on nullification and his opposition to the Bank of the United States. Nat Turner’s Virginia slave revolt in August drew a quick administration response. By year’s end, the dust over the Cabinet implosion was settling, as Jackson prepared to stand for reelection against his old nemesis Henry Clay. Embracing all these stories and many more, this volume offers an incomparable window not only into Andrew Jackson and his presidency but into America itself in 1831.

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Author:   Daniel Feller ,  Thomas Coens ,  Laura-Eve Moss ,  Erik Alexander
Publisher:   University of Tennessee Press
Imprint:   University of Tennessee Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 6.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.604kg
ISBN:  

9781621900047


ISBN 10:   1621900045
Pages:   1024
Publication Date:   30 October 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Daniel Feller is editor and director of The Papers of Andrew Jackson and professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. Associate editors Thomas Coens and Laura-Eve Moss and assistant editor Erik Alexander are research faculty in history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.

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