Jackson Versus Biddle
Author : George Rogers Taylor
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 1949
Category : History
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Author : George Rogers Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 1949
Category : History
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Author : George Rogers Taylor
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : George Rogers Taylor
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Page : 227 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Robert Vincent Remini
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393097573
Examines Jackson's role in destroying the Second Bank of the United States and the effect of his actions on the power of the Presidency
Author : Paul Kahan
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2022-01-27
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ISBN : 9781594163777
The Battle over the Charter of the Second Bank of the United States and Its Lasting Impact on the American Economy Late one night in July 1832, Martin Van Buren rushed to the White House where he found an ailing President Andrew Jackson weakened but resolute. Thundering against his political antagonists, Jackson bellowed: "The Bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I shall kill it!"With those famous words, Jackson formally declared "war" against the Second Bank of the United States and its president Nicholas Biddle. The Bank of the United States, which held the majority of Federal monies, had been established as a means of centralizing and stabilizing American currency and the economy, particularly during the country's vulnerable early years. Jackson and his allies viewed the bank as both elitist and a threat to states' rights. Throughout his first term, Jackson had attacked the bank viciously but failed to take action against the institution. Congress' decision to recharter the bank forced Jackson to either make good on his rhetoric and veto the recharter or sign the recharter bill and be condemned as a hypocrite. In The Bank War: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance, historian Paul Kahan explores one of the most important and dramatic events in American political and economic history, from the idea of centralized banking and the First Bank of the United States to Jackson's triumph, the era of "free banking," and the creation of the Federal Reserve System. Relying on a range of primary and secondary source material, the book also shows how the Bank War was a manifestation of the debates that were sparked at the Constitutional Convention--the role of the executive branch and the role of the federal government in American society--debates that endure to this day as philosophical differences that often divide the United States.
Author : George Rogers Taylow
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 1949
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Author : George Rogers Taylor
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Page : 119 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 1949
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Author : Robert V. Remini
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Page : pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307278549
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The First American comes the first major single-volume biography in a decade of the president who defined American democracy • "A big, rich biography.” —The Boston Globe H. W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he ushered in. An orphan at a young age and without formal education or the family lineage of the Founding Fathers, Jackson showed that the presidency was not the exclusive province of the wealthy and the well-born but could truly be held by a man of the people. On a majestic, sweeping scale Brands re-creates Jackson’s rise from his hardscrabble roots to his days as frontier lawyer, then on to his heroic victory in the Battle of New Orleans, and finally to the White House. Capturing Jackson’s outsized life and deep impact on American history, Brands also explores his controversial actions, from his unapologetic expansionism to the disgraceful Trail of Tears. Look for H.W. Brands's other biographies: THE FIRST AMERICAN (Benjamin Franklin), THE MAN WHO SAVED THE UNION (Ulysses S. Grant), TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS (Franklin Roosevelt) and REAGAN.
Author : George Rogers Taylor
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Page : 119 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 1949
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