Andrew Jackson

A burned Treasury, a disputed building site, and one sharp command: “Put it here, sir.” The horseman was Andrew Jackson—and whether the story is true or not, it sounds like him.

William Garrott Brown’s portrait begins in the hard-scrabble Waxhaws of the 1760s, where a poor Scotch-Irish boy grows up amid frontier hardships and the violence of the Revolutionary War. Andrew Jackson loses his father before he is born, then his mother and brothers while still young; he comes away orphaned, scarred, and carrying a fierce memory of those who hurt him. Brown follows the making of a man whose courage and loyalty sit beside a temper that could unsettle a nation. His rise would divide Americans into devoted friends and bitter foes. What made this wounded, self-willed boy seem to so many the very voice of the people?

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