{"product_id":"driven-west-andrew-jackson-and-the-trail-of-tears-to-the-civil-war-9781416548607","title":"Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBy the acclaimed author of the classic \u003ci\u003ePatriots \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eUnion 1812, \u003c\/i\u003ethis major work of narrative history portrays four of the most turbulent decades in the growth of the American nation. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter the War of 1812, President Andrew Jackson and his successors led the country to its manifest destiny across the continent. But that expansion unleashed new regional hostilities that led inexorably to Civil War. The earliest victims were the Cherokees and other tribes of the southeast who had lived and prospered for centuries on land that became Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJackson, who had first gained fame as an Indian fighter, decreed that the Cherokees be forcibly removed from their rich cotton fields to make way for an exploding white population. His policy set off angry debates in Congress and protests from such celebrated Northern writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson. Southern slave owners saw that defense of the Cherokees as linked to a growing abolitionist movement. They understood that the protests would not end with protecting a few Indian tribes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLangguth tells the dramatic story of the desperate fate of the Cherokees as they were driven out of Georgia at bayonet point by U.S. Army forces led by General Winfield Scott. At the center of the story are the American statesmen of the day--Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun--and those Cherokee leaders who tried to save their people--Major Ridge, John Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and John Ross. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDriven West \u003c\/i\u003epresents wrenching firsthand accounts of the forced march across the Mississippi along a path of misery and death that the Cherokees called the Trail of Tears. Survivors reached the distant Oklahoma territory that Jackson had marked out for them, only to find that the bloodiest days of their ordeal still awaited them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn time, the fierce national collision set off by Jackson's Indian policy would encompass the Mexican War, the bloody frontier wars over the expansion of slavery, the doctrines of nullification and secession, and, finally, the Civil War itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his masterly narrative of this saga, Langguth captures the idealism and betrayals of headstrong leaders as they steered a raw and vibrant nation in the rush to its destiny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. J. Langguth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781416548607\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLangguth, A. J.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - A. J. Langguth (1933-2014) was the author of eight books of nonfiction and three novels. \u003ci\u003eAfter Lincoln \u003c\/i\u003emarks his fourth book in a series that began in 1988 with \u003ci\u003ePatriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e. He served as a Saigon bureau chief for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, after covering the Civil Rights movement for the newspaper. Langguth taught for three decades at the University of Southern California and retired in 2003 as emeritus professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44409869172851,"sku":"9781416548607","price":32.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_964eff02-7ce7-4564-a00b-3b2c71dff5b3.jpg?v=1771938968","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/driven-west-andrew-jackson-and-the-trail-of-tears-to-the-civil-war-9781416548607","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}