Andrew Jackson: The American Presidents Series: The 7th President, 1829-1837

The towering figure who remade American politics—the champion of the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilege.

The Founding Fathers espoused a republican government, but they were distrustful of the common people, having designed a constitutional system that would temper popular passions. But as the revolutionary generation passed from the scene in the 1820s, a new movement, based on the principle of broader democracy, gathered force and united behind Andrew Jackson, the cha...