President Andrew Jackson, and his hard fought times are at the center of this informing book about a man who arose from ashes of a fallen family, with nothing in life to create the modern presidency and what it is all about. Loved, cherished and hated, and rivaled, Andrew Jackson was an abandon child who fought his way to the top of a metaphorical pyramid of power, twisting the nation to his will in the fight for democracy. Jackson’s election in which he won leading into a new and forever inspiring era in which the people of today have called the Jacksonian era and creating a name for himself, were the guiding line in American politics and people, Democracy made its stand in the Jacksonian years, and he gave a voice to the hopeless and the …show more content…
The removal of Indians from their native lands being the start of a long list of actions made by Jackson, he was warmly thought of positively by most of the United States population and risked everything he had to give more power, and even control to everyday people and fighting for the everyday person, because he knew what it was like to come from nothing and be someone with nothing and no power and nothing to give to society like many of the everyday country. He was, a lot like his people ultimately kind and fearful, also smart but yet blind to some true problems in the everyday world, and a man who fought a war for what seemed like a life time Jackson was a man who to me could widely be compared to our first beloved president George Washington. But in Jon Meacham’s American Lion he has presented the set in history, human definition of an inspirational man who forever created the true and yet controversial definition of the American presidency and what it means to be an American. Because to be a President it’s more than a title it’s putting millions of people’s lives in your hands and looking to you to guide them in a time of national trouble and fear, this book gives you all of the above from start to