American Lion by Jon Meacham Summary
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Pulitzer Prize-winning "American Lion" unveils Andrew Jackson's complex White House years, revealing how personal tragedy shaped his controversial presidency. Meacham's nuanced portrait challenges us: was Jackson democracy's champion or indigenous peoples' oppressor? History's contradictions have rarely been so compellingly human.
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When a President Threatened to Hang His Own Vice President
The winter of 1832 brought Washington to a boiling point. Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, sat across from a South Carolina congressman and delivered a message so stark it would echo through history: "Tell them that if a single drop of blood shall be shed there in opposition to the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man I can lay my hand on engaged in such treasonable conduct, upon the first tree I can reach." The target of this threat? His own vice president, John C. Calhoun, who was championing South Carolina's attempt to nullify federal law. This wasn't political theater-Jackson meant every word. The bullet lodged near his heart from an 1806 duel was a constant reminder that he never made idle threats. Here was a president willing to go to war against his own state to preserve the Union, three decades before Lincoln faced the same choice. Jackson's eight years in the White House transformed the presidency from a limited administrative role into the powerful office we recognize today. His story reveals how one man's fierce determination, forged in Revolutionary War tragedy and frontier violence, reshaped American democracy itself-for better and worse.
The Making of a Fighter
The White House as Home
Remaking the Presidency
The Union Above All
Democracy's Dark Bargain
The Lion's Final Roar
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