American Lion by Meacham, Jon -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents A Note on the Text Principal Characters Prologue: With the Feelings of a Father: The White House, Washington, Winter 1832–33 I: The Love of Country, Fame and Honor: Beginnings to Late 1830

1. Andy Will Fight his Way in the World 2. Follow Me and I’ll Save You Yet 3. A Marriage, a Defeat, and a Victory 4. You Know Best, My Dear 5. Ladies’ Wars Are Always Fierce and Hot 6. A Busybody Presbyterian Clergyman 7. My White and Red Children 8. Major Eaton Has Spoken of Resigning 9. An Opinion of the President Alone 10. Liberty and Union, Now and Forever 11. General Jackson Rules by His Personal Popularity

II: I Will Die with the Union: Late 1830 to 1834

12. I Have Been Left to Sup Alone 13. A Mean and Scurvy Piece of Business 14. Now Let Him Enforce It 15. The Fury of a Chained Panther 16. Hurra for the Hickory Tree! 17. A Dreadful Crisis of Excitement and Violence 18. The Mad Project of Disunion 19. We Are Threatened to Have Our Throats Cut 20. Great Is the Stake Placed in Our Hands 21. My Mind Is Made Up 22. He Appeared to Feel as a Father 23. The People, Sir, Are with Me 24. We Are in the Midst of a Revolution

III: The Evening of his Days: 1834 to the End

25. So You Want War 26. A Dark, Lawless, and Insatiable Ambition! 27. There Is a Rank Due to the United States Among Nations 28. The Wretched Victim of a Dreadful Delusion 29. How Would You Like to Be a Slave? 30. The Strife About the Next Presidency 31. Not One Would Have Ever Got Out Alive 32. I Fear Emily Will Not Recover 33. The President Will Go Out Triumphantly 34. The Shock Is Great, and Grief Universal

Epilogue: He Still Lives Author’s Note and Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits About the Author