Hardened to Hickory: The Lacking Chapter in Andrew Jackson’s Life

A lacking chapter within the biography of President Andrew Jackson primarily based upon unpublished paperwork. Written in a story that’s “each authentic and thrillingly dramatic” (Kirkus), it supplies “a contemporary tackle a well-known determine” (Writer’s Weekly).Unpublished paperwork reveal an Andrew Jackson who dedicated mutiny and shed tears as he thought his errors would result in the deaths of youngsters underneath his command. Indians saved him. The backwoods Jackson, who had by no means commanded a battle, presumed to tackle the mantel of Common George Washington. Earlier than Jackson turned the following normal to drive the British Military from American soil, he first needed to defeat the commander of the U.S. Military, Common James Wilkinson. Wilkinson embodied a privileged and unproductive institution, and worse, he had bought his loyalty to work as a spy referred to as “Agent 13” on the payroll of a European enemy. It was a battle of wits and wills between two American titans. The lacking piece of Jackson’s biography is how he was reworked into “Outdated Hickory” by challenges that will have crushed virtually anybody else, an intense will to succeed, and a capability to get well from his personal errors. The non-fiction Hardened to Hickory: The Lacking Chapter in Andrew Jackson’s Life is about in a seemingly apocalyptic time in American historical past when each settlers and Indians thought the world was coming to an finish. For months, large earthquakes prompted the bottom to open like jaws and swallow homes entire. The Mississippi River flowed backward. A comet appeared as a second moon. The northern lights turned blood-red. The plight of a poor younger mom taken hostage by Indian rebels appeared to sign a wider and remaining destruction and mobilized Jackson’s state to go to struggle.Political events had divided themselves into two camps and refused to belief one another. The institution that had gained the Revolution and produced a brand new nation was now not producing prosperity. The fledgling nation appeared to be tearing itself aside on the similar time enemy powers threatened to invade.Out of the turmoil, robust leaders rose on the frontier— Shawnee Tecumseh, Chickasaw Colbert, Choctaw Pushmataha and Andrew Jackson. Most of them had realized to outlive as orphans, with out relying upon the privileges of the outdated institution that appeared to be crumbling round them. The narrative follows Jackson’s younger Tennessee Volunteers of their expedition down the Natchez Hint and Mississippi River as Jackson tried to outwit and overpower Wilkinson for management of the Gulf Coast and finally the U.S. Military. The brand new data describes a human facet of a extra complicated Andrew Jackson than has been introduced as he overcame overwhelming obstacles to grow to be “Outdated Hickory,” normal, and president.