Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson

Waking Giant is a brilliant, definitive history of America's vibrant and tumultuous rise during the Jacksonian era from David S. Reynolds, the Bancroft Prize-winning author of Walt Whitman's America. Casting fresh light on Andrew Jackson, who redefined the presidency, along with John Quincy Adams and James K. Polk, who expanded the nation's territory and strengthened its position internationally, Reynolds captures the turbulence of a democracy caught in the throes of the controversy over slavery, the rise of capitalism, and the birth of urbanization.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 09/29/2009
ISBN: 9780060826574
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.28w x 1.15d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 11/15/2009 pg. 28