(Paperback)
By: Robert Remini
ISBN: 9780465024896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Basic Books
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A National Book Award-winning historian narrates Henry Clay's heroic brokering of a bipartisan compromise that saved the nation
(Paperback)
By: Robert Remini
ISBN: 9780712667128
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2001
Publisher: Vintage
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In 1815 Britain's crack troops, fresh from the victories against Napoleon, were stunningly defeated near New Orleans by a ragtag army of citizen-soldiers under the commander they dubbed 'Old Hickory', Andrew Jackson. It was this battle that defined the United States as a military power to be reckoned with and an independent democracy here to stay.
