Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (September 2008)

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"Professor Remini, already a recognized authority on the Jackson period, has written the best biography of Andrew Jackson available. It summarizes adequately the best of the old scholarship while at the same time branching off to offer significant new interpretations of crucial points." --Library Journal

"In this concise and well-written biography, Robert V. Remini has a more ambitious objective than merely recounting the life of a famous man.... He portrays the President not as a symbol of the age nor a personification of proletarian striving, but as a shrewd and able politician, a pioneer in using the office of the Presidency for both national and narrowly partisan purposes.... His account is persuasive and well documented." --Political Science Quarterly

This fascinating biography, written by historian Robert Remini, focuses on the political career of Andrew Jackson as well as his military heroism at the Battle of New Orleans, his involvement in the Indian Wars, the nullification crisis, and the controversy regarding the Bank of the United States. It provides an overview of the significant events that made Jackson's rise to the presidency possible. Remini is widely regarded as one of the great historians of the Jacksonian era and Andrew Jackson is his most accessible book on one of the period's most intriguing and dichotomous figures.

About the Author: ROBERT V. REMINI has been called by the New York Times the "foremost Jacksonian scholar of our time" for his many books on Jacksonian America. Among his many honors are the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation Award, the Carl Sandburg Award for Nonfiction, the University Scholar Award of the University of Illinois, and the National Book Award. He is professor emeritus of history and research professor emeritus of humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He lives in Wilmette, Illinois.