In Defense of Andrew Jackson by Bradley Birzer

He was controversial in his time– and even more controversial in our own. Indian-fighter, ardent patriot, hero of the War of 1812, the very embodiment of America’s democratic and frontier spirit, Jackson was an iconic figure. But who was the real Andrew Jackson?

In this concise, yet fully rounded portrait of Jackson the man, the soldier, the politician–the embodiment of an ambitious, optimistic era of American expansion– Birzer, a professor of history, makes the case that Jackson was the American frontiersman par excellence, passionately devoted to individual liberty, Christian morality and the preservation of the Union.

Hard cover.

About the author: Birzer holds the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies and is Professor of History at Hillsdale College, Michigan. He proudly serves on the boards of the Free Enterprise Institute and The Center for Cultural Renewal. He is happily a “Fellow” and/or “Scholar” with the The American Conservative, Foundation for Economic Education, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, The McConnell Center for Public Policy, the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, and the Center for Economic Personalism (Brazil). In 2010, he co-founded The Imaginative Conservative website with Winston Elliott, and also writes for Ignatius Insight, Catholic World Report, Townhall, and The American Conservative. In 1990, he earned his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, and, in 1998, earned his PhD from Indiana University. He is also the author of several books and scholarly articles.