Andrew Jackson is best known as the president who created Jacksonian democracy, with its focus on manifest destiny and laissez-faire economics.
He is author of A Time to Lead, as well as the best selling books Waging Modern War and Winning Modern Wars ..
Clark was NATO\'s Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, and the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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He lives in Wilmette, IL.
Remini is the official historian at the House of Representatives.
He is professor of history emeritus and research professor of humanities emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Remini won the National Book Award for the third volume of his definitive biography of Andrew Jackson and is the author of biographies of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster and others.
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With dramatic scenes of fierce battles and victories, Remini reveals here why Jackson\'s bold Leadership as a general led to his election as President of the United States in 1828.
Most of all, Jackson was a great motivator who could, with a few carefully selected words and by his own brave example, turn around starved, deserting troops, convincing them to fight.
Jackson\'s effective use of spies in war time and of martial law in peace time sparked a debate about the curtailing of civil liberties in the name of national security that continues to this day.
But rarely are his accomplishments as a general highlighted.
Andrew Jackson is best known as the president who created Jacksonian democracy, with its focus on manifest destiny and laissez-faire economics
