Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
By Steve Inskeep.
Description
“The story of the Cherokee removal has been told many times, but never before has a single book given us such a sense of how it happened and what it meant, not only for Indians, but also for the future and soul of America.” —The Washington Post Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. One man we recognize: Andrew Jackson—war hero, populist, and exemplar of the expanding South&...
ISBN(s)
014310831X, 9780143108313
