For over a century historians have been unable to agree about Andrew Jackson. Was he as Robert Remini has insisted for more than forty years a masterful politician who shaped the modern presidency and ushered in an era of new democratic politics? Or was he, as James C. Curtis and Andrew Burstein have argued, a loose cannon who possessed no vision for the American republic? What historians do not doubt is Jackson's significant and lasting impact on American politics and the nation. To fully assess his role and legacy, one must explore the interaction between his personal and political motivations and the larger developments of the early republic and antebellum period. In "Andrew Jackson in Context", Matthew Warshauer, Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University and author of "Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law", offers a detailed look at differing historians' views on Jackson and places these perspectives within an accessible biography of the seventh...

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