Andrew Jackson (Great Generals)

by Robert V. Remini

Wesley K. Clark (Foreword)

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The newest addition to Palgrave's Great Generals series focuses on Andrew Jackson's career including his time as a general in Tennessee and his rise up the Army ranks. Jackson's effective use of spies in war time and of martial law in peace time sparked a debate about the curtailing of civil liberties in the name of national security that continues to this day. Most of all, Jackson was a great motivator who could, with a few carefully selected words and by his own brave example, turn around starved, deserting troops, convincing them to fight. With dramatic scenes of fierce...Read more
  • ISBN10 0230600158
  • ISBN13 9780230600157
  • Publish Date 13 February 2009 (first published 5 June 1998)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 1 July 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Language English