Andrew Jackson (Illustrated)

Andrew Jackson is the first volume in The Riverside Biographical Series. Jackson was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of Congress. As president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the "common man" against a "corrupt aristocracy" and to preserve the Union.

The Riverside Biographical Series presents highlights of the lives of famous people. Never intended to be an exhaustive biographical study, they nonetheless provide enough detail for the reader to decide whether to pursue the subject's life in greater depth.

William Garrott Brown served as a lecturer in the History Department at Harvard University, but Brown began experiencing increasing deafness, making teaching difficult. The period from 1900 to 1905 was Brown's most productive. He published no less than seven books during these years, including two volumes in the Houghton Mifflin Riverside Biographical Series, Andrew Jackson (1900) and Stephen Douglas (1902) and a stand-alone biography of Oliver Ellsworth. He also produced his best known work, The Lower South in American History (1902).

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