Andrew Jackson
Heroic Leader or Cold-hearted Ruler?

Let me make clear my criteria in rating and reviewing this book: first, I picked this up because I needed a short but reliable read on Andrew Jackson to fill my knowledge gap in the time period and understand the comparisons made with him and President Trump, and secondly with an understanding that......more

This is a story of a racist genocidal leader who also displayed cognitive dissonance in rare moments of possible compassion. Though the author doesn’t deny this fact, he glosses over atrocities, large and small, as though they are insignificant moments in the life of a general. The book concludes by......more

Apparently Steve Bannon recently gave Donald Trump a biography of Andrew Jackson because he sees Jackson as a prototype of Trump. Trump misread or misremembered or couldn't quite get the book. Be that as it may, I thought I'd read the same biography, but I wasn't the only library member in Chapel Hi......more

I waffled back and forth between two and three stars. I wasn't sure if some of my dislike was just that my prejudices against Jackson are so deeply rooted that there was no way for me to enjoy the book, or if it was the book itself. I gave Remini the benefit of the doubt and went with three. Remini w......more

This book is the story of Andrew Jackson from childhood to death and everything in-between. I have read various biographies and books about Jackson, but this one is my favorite. Not only is Jackson an intensely interesting man, but the authors enthusiasm and love for history and Andrew Jackson is wo......more