Full name: Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson

Author: David S. Reynolds Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780060826567 9780060826574 0060826568 0060826576

Waking Giant is a brilliant, definitive history of America's vibrant and tumultuous rise during the Jacksonian era from David S. Reynolds, the Bancroft Prize-winning author of Walt Whitman's America. Casting fresh light on Andrew Jackson, who redefined the presidency, along with John Quincy Adams and James K. Polk, who expanded the nation's territory and strengthened its position internationally, Reynolds captures the turbulence of a democracy caught in the throes of the controversy over slavery, the rise of capitalism, and the birth of urbanization. Similar books: 1831 by Louis P. Masur The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The Year of Decision: 1846 by Bernard DeVoto Unsolved Mysteries of American History by Paul Aron From Sea to Shining Sea by Peter Marshall Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans by Brian Kilmeade The Cycles of American History by Arthur Meier Schlesinger That's Not in My American History Book by Thomas Ayres A Short History of the United States by Robert V. Remini The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 by David M. Potter The Story of American Freedom by Eric Foner Restless Giant by James T. Patterson The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas E. Woods Jr. Decision in Philadelphia by Christopher Collier From Colony to Superpower by George C. Herring The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Mobituaries by Mo Rocca The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir