Andrew Jackson: Lessons in Leadership

<p><b> A gripping account of Andrew Jackson's triumphant military career by acclaimed military historian Robert Remini winner of the National Book Award.<br></b><br>Andrew Jackson is best known as the president who created Jacksonian democracy with its focus on manifest destiny and laissez-faire economics. But rarely are his accomplishments as a general highlighted. Jackson's effective use of spies in war time and of martial law in peace time sparked a debate about the curtailing of civil liberties in the name of national security that continues to this day. Most of all Jackson was a great motivator who could with a few carefully selected words and by his own brave example turn around starved deserting troops convincing them to fight. <p/>With dramatic scenes of fierce battles and victories Remini reveals here why Jackson's bold leadership as a general led to his election as President of the United States in 1828.</p>