Audiolibro ANDREW JACKSON

The definitive Andrew Jackson biography, on audiobook — Old Hickory from the Waxhaws frontier to the White House, the Bank War, Indian Removal, and the making of modern American democracy, 1767-1845. Narrated by Delia OBrien.
🎧 Listen time: 4 hours 57 minutes
In April 1781, a British dragoon ordered a thirteen-year-old prisoner to clean his boots. The boy refused. The officer drew his saber and slashed at the boys head — a scar that healed but never faded. The boy was Andrew Jackson. He carried that wound for sixty-four years, and with it a political identity forged by a Revolution that had killed his mother, both brothers, and very nearly himself.
In this Andrew Jackson biography, historian Margaret Aldrich Tate follows Old Hickory — from the Scots-Irish Waxhaws, through the duels, the Creek War, the Battle of New Orleans, and the brutal 1828 election that killed Rachel Donelson Jackson, to the presidency that transformed American politics. Here are Jacksons battles against Nicholas Biddles Bank of the United States, John C. Calhouns nullification challenge, the Cherokee Nations resistance in Worcester v. Georgia, and the Trail of Tears that resulted when Jackson refused to enforce the Supreme Courts ruling. This is the complete story of the man who built the modern Democratic Party, expanded executive power beyond any predecessor, and left contradictions the republic has not yet resolved.
Inside this Andrew Jackson history:
The Charles Dickinson duel — Jackson absorbed Dickinsons ball in the chest, stood his ground, and killed his opponent in 1806; the lead lodged near his heart for nineteen years before a surgeon removed it in 1832 (Chapter 6)
The Battle of New Orleans — January 8, 1815: British General Pakenhams army advancing into Jacksons prepared lines, suffering 2,000 casualties while Jackson lost thirteen men; the victory that made a national hero (Chapter 11)
The Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears — the act passed 102-97, Senator Frelinghuysen argued against it for three days, the Cherokee pursued legal resistance, and Jackson refused to enforce the Supreme Courts ruling; approximately 4,000 Cherokee died on the winter march of 1838-1839 (Chapter 19)
The Bank War — Jacksons 1832 veto message addressed to the nation, not Congress: a democratic manifesto against "artificial distinctions" that made "the rich richer and the potent more powerful" — and Nicholas Biddles miscalculation that destroyed the Bank entirely (Chapter 21)
The Nullification Crisis — Jacksons Proclamation asserting that "the Constitution forms a government, not a league" and that secession was treason: the constitutional argument Lincoln deployed thirty years later at far higher cost (Chapter 20)
Jackson expanded the franchise for white men while presiding over the dispossession of Native nations. He claimed to speak for the common people while owning more than a hundred enslaved Africans at the Hermitage. Delia OBriens narration carries the sweep of the frontier and the weight of the reckoning alike; this Andrew Jackson biography names the suffering his actions caused and the consequences they produced — for the republic he remade and for the people it excluded.
For listeners of the audiobooks of H.W. Brandss ANDREW JACKSON: HIS LIFE AND TIMES and Jon Meachams AMERICAN LION.