The Age of Jackson

By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Published September 15th 2005 by Konecky & Konecky (first published 1945)

Category: Biography

Pages: 576 pages

ISBN: 9781568524368

Description:
The young Schlesinger, for all the tradition he embodied, had a refreshing streak of informality. While working in the Kennedy White House, he found time to review movies for Show magazine. He also admitted his mistakes. One, he said, was neglecting to mention President JacksonÕs brutal treatment of the Indians in his Pulitzer Prize-winning ÒAge of Jackson.Ó It was published when he was 27, and is still standard reading.
The book rejected earlier interpretations linking the rise of Jacksonian democracy with westward expansion. Instead, it gave greater importance to a coalition of intellectuals and workers in the Northeast who were determined to check the growing power of business.
The book sold more than 90,000 copies in its first year and won the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for history.