Andrew Jackson, Hero

by Donald Barr Chidsey

Book Overview

Donald Barr Chidsey brings his amazing and widely acknowledged skills as a popular historian to bear on one of those controversial American wars-perplexing, colorful, at times brutal, often devastating. It was in protest against the war with Mexico that Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax, and wrote his famous essay "Civil Disobedience."

In extraordinarily vivid terms, Chidsey re-creates the wanton massacre of a whole company of American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479432016
• ISBN13: 9781479432011
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"