Book - BookDetective

Name: The Age of Jackson

Author: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Year: 1946
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Pop Rating:

Genres/categories:
History, Biographies, Non Fiction

Purchase/reserch links:

LibraryThing

Goodreads

Amazon

ISBNs:
9781568524368
9780316773430
1568524366
0316773433

The young Schlesinger, for all the tradition he embodied, had a refreshing streak of informality. While working in the Kennedy White House, he found time to review movies for Show magazine. He also admitted his mistakes. One, he said, was neglecting to mention President Jackson's brutal treatment of the Indians in his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Age of Jackson." It was published when he was 27, and is still standard reading.
The book rejected earlier interpretations linking the rise of Jacksonian democracy with westward expansion. Instead, it gave greater importance to a coalition of intellectuals and workers in the Northeast who were determined to check the growing power of business.
The book sold more than 90,000 copies in its first year and won the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for history.

Similar books: