Bibliography of Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson by James Tooley Jr., 1840

The following is a list of important scholarly resources related to Andrew Jackson.

Andrew Jackson, I am given to understand, was a patriot and a traitor. He was one of the greatest of generals, and wholly ignorant of the art of war. A writer brilliant, elegant, eloquent, without being able to compose a correct sentence, or spell words of four syllables. The first of statesmen, he never devised, he never framed a measure. He was the most candid of men, and was capable of the profoundest dissimulation. A most law-defying, law-obeying citizen. A stickler for discipline, he never hesitated to disobey a superior. A democratic autocrat. An urbane savage. An atrocious saint.

— James Parton, Life of Andrew Jackson (1860)[1]

Biographies, 20th and 21st centuries

  • Bassett, John Spencer (1911). The Life of Andrew Jackson. New York: Doubleday Page & Company. vol 1 online; vol 2 online
  • Booraem, Hendrik (2001). Young Hickory: The Making of Andrew Jackson. Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing. ISBN 0-8783-3263-4.; 344 pages; coverage to age 21
  • Brands, H. W. (2005). Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 1-4000-3072-2.
  • Brown, David S. (2022). The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-1-9821-9109-2.
  • Burstein, Andrew (2003). The Passions of Andrew Jackson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-3754-1428-2. LCCN 2002016258. OCLC 49385944.
  • Cheathem, Mark R. (2013). Andrew Jackson, Southerner. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0807-15098-6.
  • Curtis, James C. (1976). Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. ISBN 978-0-673-39334-0.
  • James, Marquis (1933). Andrew Jackson: The Boarder Captain. New York: Literary Guild.
  • James, Marquis (1937). Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President. New York: Grosset & Dunlap.
  • Latner, Richard B. (2002). "Andrew Jackson". In Graff, Henry (ed.). The Presidents: A Reference History (3 ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-684-31226-2. OCLC 49029341.
  • Meacham, Jon (2008). American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. New York: Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8129-7346-4.
  • Remini, Robert (1966). Andrew Jackson. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Remini, Robert V. (1977). Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767–1821. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-8018-5912-3.
  • Remini, Robert V. (1981). Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom, 1822–1832. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8018-5913-7.
  • Remini, Robert V. (1984). Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-8018-5913-1.
  • Remini, Robert V. (1988). The Life of Andrew Jackson. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-0618-0788-5. Abridgment of Remini's 3-volume biography.
  • Remini, Robert V. "Andrew Jackson", American National Biography (2000).
  • Wilentz, Sean (2005). Andrew Jackson. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-6925-9.

Biographies, 19th century

Military

Indian removal

Bank War

Petticoat affair

Presidential campaigns

Slavery

Personal life

Note: There are extensive family tree charts in volume one of The Papers, volume one of Remini, in Rogin (1976), and in Cheathem (October 2011).

Other specialized studies

Encyclopedias

Historiography

Papers and correspondence

  • Jackson, Andrew (1926–1935). Bassett, John Spencer; Jameson, J. Franklin (eds.). The Correspondence of Andrew Jackson. Vol. 5. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institute of Washington. OCLC 970877018. 7 volumes total.
  • Jackson, Andrew (1926–1935). Smith, Sam B.; Owlsey, Harriet Chappell; Feller, Dan; Moser, Harold D. (eds.). The Correspondence of Andrew Jackson. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. OCLC 5029597. (9 vols. 1980 to date)
  • Richardson, James D., ed. (1897). Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art. OCLC 980191506. Reprints his major messages and reports.
  • Library of Congress. "Andrew Jackson Papers", a digital archive that provides direct access to the manuscript images of many of the Jackson documents. online

Theses

  • Drew, Bettina. "Master Andrew Jackson: Indian Removal and the Culture of Slavery." Yale University, 2001.
  • Smith, Trevor A. "Pioneers, Patriots, and Politicians: The Tennessee Militia System, 1772–1857." University of Tennessee, 2003.

See also

References

  1. ^ Parton, James (1860). Life of Andrew Jackson: In Three Volumes. I. Mason brothers. pp. vii.