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American Lion

by Jon Meacham

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Series (with order)
Canonical Title
American Lion
Original publication date
2008-11
People/Characters
Andrew Jackson (President)
John Quincy Adams (6th President)
Thomas Hart Benton (Senator, Maryland)
Nicholas Biddle (President, Second Bank of the US)
Francis Preston Blair (founding editor, Washington Globe)
Important places
Washington, D.C., USA
USA
Important events
Jacksonian Era (1824|1854)
Related movies
Awards and honors
Pulitzer Prize (Biography or Autobiography, 2009)
New York Times bestseller (Nonfiction, 2008)
New York Times Notable Book of the Year (Nonfiction, 2008)
Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist (Biography, 2008)
Epigraph
The darker the night the bolder the sun.
- Theodore Roosevelt,
Life Histories of African Game Animals

I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.
- Andrew Jackson
Dedication
To Mary, Maggie, and Sam
First words
It looked like war.
Quotations
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)
Disambiguation notice
Full title (2008): American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House / Jon Meacham
Publisher's editors
Blurbers
Isaacson, Walter
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Beschloss, Michael
Wilentz, Sean
Remini, Robert V.

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