Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War

by A.J. Langguth

Book Overview

By the acclaimed author of the classic Patriots and Union 1812, this major work of narrative history portrays four of the most turbulent decades in the growth of the American nation. After 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416548599
• ISBN13: 9781416548591
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.7" x 9.5"