TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heidler,David Stephen
AU  - Heidler,Jeanne T.
TI  - The rise of Andrew Jackson: myth, manipulation, and the making of modern politics 
SN  - 9780465097562
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Jackson, Andrew,
KW  - Presidents
KW  - United States
KW  - Election
KW  - 1828
KW  - Biography
KW  - Political campaigns
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Political parties
KW  - Political culture
KW  - 1815-1861
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1829-1837
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-417) and index; Introduction -- Prologue -- Hickory -- Hero -- Image -- Caesar -- Two Washingtons -- Solon -- 1824 -- Election -- Bargains -- Allegations -- Machine -- Ink -- Magician -- Mud -- Triumph -- Epilogue
N2  - "Andrew Jackson was volatile and prone to violence, and well into his forties his sole claim on the public's affections derived from his victory in a thirty-minute battle at New Orleans in early 1815. Yet those in his immediate circle believed he was a great man who should be president of the United States. Jackson's election in 1828 is usually viewed as a result of the expansion of democracy. Historians David and Jeanne Heidler argue that he actually owed his victory to his closest supporters, who wrote hagiographies of him, founded newspapers to savage his enemies, and built a political network that was always on message. In transforming a difficult man into a paragon of republican virtue, the Jacksonites exploded the old order and created a mode of electioneering that has been mimicked ever since"--
ER  -