re: Best Andrew Jackson biography

I have read quite a few and I would rank them

1. HW Brands
2. Remini
3. Wilentz
4. Meachem

I taught 7th grade for five years before switching to HS AP.

I'd also pick up What God Hath Wrought and Rise of American Democracy

He raised an orphan Indian boy,

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In 1813, Andrew Jackson sent home to Tennessee a Native American child who was found on the battlefield with his dead mother. This boy, Lyncoya, (c1811-1828), may have originally been intended as merely a companion for Andrew Jr., but Jackson soon took a strong interest in him.

Lyncoya was educated along with Andrew Jr., and Jackson had aspirations of sending him to West Point, as well. Unfortunately, political circumstances made that impossible, and he instead trained as a saddle maker in Nashville. He died of tuberculosis in 1828.

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He was such a baller in the early 1820's he had a $2500 stage coach made.


Both North Carolina and South Carolina claim to be his birthplace.
The seventh president was born on March 15, 1767, but exactly where is disputed. The Waxhaws wilderness was so remote that the precise border between North and South Carolina had yet to be surveyed. In an 1824 letter, Jackson wrote that he had been told that he had been born in his uncle’s South Carolina home, but dueling historic markers in both states still claim to be the true locations of Jackson’s birthplace.


Jackson killed a man in a duel.
The fiery Jackson had a propensity to respond to aspersions cast on his honor with pistols. Historians estimate that “Old Hickory” may have participated in anywhere between 5 and 100 duels. When a man named Charles Dickinson called Jackson “a worthless scoundrel, a paltroon and a coward” in a local newspaper in 1806, the future president challenged his accuser to a duel. At the command, Dickinson fired and hit Jackson in the chest. The bullet missed Jackson’s heart by barely more than an inch. In spite of the serious wound, Jackson stood his ground, raised his pistol and fired a shot that struck his foe dead. Jackson would carry around the bullet in his chest as well as another from a subsequent duel for the rest of his life.

He was the only president to have been a former prisoner of war.
During the Revolutionary War, the 13-year-old Jackson joined the Continental Army as a courier. In April 1781, he was taken prisoner along with his brother Robert. When a British officer ordered Jackson to polish his boots, the future president refused. The infuriated Redcoat drew his sword and slashed Jackson’s left hand to the bone and gashed his head, which left a permanent scar. The British released the brothers after two weeks of ill treatment in captivity, and within days Robert died from an illness contracted during his confinement.


Jackson’s portrait appears on the $20 bill although he detested paper money.
Chastened by a financial hit he once took from devalued paper notes, Jackson was opposed to the issuance of paper money by state and national banks. He only trusted gold and silver as currency and shut down the Second Bank of the United States in part because of its ability to manipulate paper money. It’s ironic that Jackson not only appears on the $20 bill, but his portrait in the past has also appeared on $5, $10, $50 and $10,000 denominations in addition to the Confederate $1,000 bill.

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little known Andrew Jackson fact

he hated raisins

Andrew Jackson, a man's man, His memory will live forever.

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little known Andrew Jackson fact

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Well that is a lie, are you a commie? it would fit you since commies lie all the time.

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prove it

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You prove it first!


All I have to do is look at his portrait to know he does not have a drop of black blood.

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All I have to do is look at his portrait to know he does not have a drop of black blood.

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I said he hated raisins not that he loved watermelon

The Passions of Andrew Jackson was written by LSU history professor Andrew Burstein. It's an interesting take on Jackson's volatile behavior and a pretty good read. But it's also fairly academic which may make it seem dense to people who aren't used to that type of reading.

For the love of god