In 1860, author James Parton published a three-volume “Life of Andrew Jackson.” Thoroughly researched and vividly written, Parton’s book became the standard biography for his generation.

The sun rarely shined on Andrew Jackson's childhood. At 14, Andrew and his brother, Robert, were captured, starved, and abused by the British during the Revolutionary War. After finally being ...

Yet why was Andrew Jackson depicted our $20 ... In 1833, attorney Philo Goodwin published a biography of Jackson saying, "no man's character" has been more misunderstood. "Many, on becoming ...

In this, the first major single-volume biography of Andrew Jackson in decades, H.W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he ushered in.

Biography can be overrated in explaining ... In these and other ways, Andrew Jackson did more than any other president to turn the Founding Fathers’ genteel republic into a robust democracy.