Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and politician who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. He became a national military hero after defeating the British at New Orleans in 1815 and built a mass political movement that helped reshape American party politics.

Jackson’s presidency was marked by the Bank War, the expansion of presidential power and fierce sectional disputes. His administration also enforced Indian removal, leading to the forced displacement of Native nations from the southeastern United States and the suffering associated with the Trail of Tears.

Lucia St. Clair Robson’s Light a Distant Fire brings Andrew Jackson into the Creek War and the frontier violence surrounding the young Sam Houston, while her Walk in My Soul places Jackson within the Cherokee world and the political pressures that will culminate in removal. Robert Shea’s Shaman uses Jacksonian America as part of its wider story of expansion and Native dispossession. Hourly History’s Seminole Wars examines Jackson’s invasion of Spanish Florida and the military origins of later removal policy, and Trail of Tears follows the consequences of the Indian Removal Act that Jackson championed as president.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Andrew Jackson (2 series)

The Kent Family Chronicles in Order

by John Jakes 8 books 4.2(89,573)

The Kent Family Chronicles trace successive generations of one family from the eve of the American Revolution to the early 1890s. The saga begins with Phillipe Charboneau, the unrecognised son of an English duke, who becomes Philip Kent in America, and follows his descendants as they build, lose…

All books in this series

1. The Bastard

First published 1974 · 4.2(30,162)

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2. The Rebels

First published 1974 · 4.2(10,826)

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3. The Seekers

First published 1975 · 4.2(9,261)

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4. The Furies

First published 1976 · 4.2(8,406)

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5. The Titans

First published 1976 · 4.3(7,244)

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6. The Warriors

First published 1977 · 4.3(9,475)

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7. The Lawless

First published 1978 · 4.3(6,443)

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8. The Americans

First published 1979 · 4.4(7,756)

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Storm of War in Order

by Timothy Ashby 2 books 4.9(7)

The Storm of War series follows Alexander ‘Chart’ Charteris, a mixed-race British officer whose military career unfolds across the Atlantic world during the age of revolution. Beginning with Fédon’s Rebellion in Grenada in the 1790s, the novels place Chart between Britain, the Caribbean and competing revolutionary movements, where…