Bibliograph

Waking giant, America in the age of Jackson, David S. Reynolds

Type

Label

Waking giant, America in the age of Jackson, David S. Reynolds

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Waking giant

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

David S. Reynolds

Sub title

America in the age of Jackson

Summary

Waking Giant is a brilliant, definitive history of America's vibrant and tumultuous rise during the Jacksonian era from David S. Reynolds, the Bancroft Prize-winning author of Walt Whitman's America. Casting fresh light on Andrew Jackson, who redefined the presidency, along with John Quincy Adams and James K. Polk, who expanded the nation's territory and strengthened its position internationally, Reynolds captures the turbulence of a democracy caught in the throes of the controversy over slavery, the rise of capitalism, and the birth of urbanization

Target audience

adult

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