by Jon Meacham
Portrait of Sarah Yorke Jackson: The Hermitage, Home of President Andrew Jackson, Nashville, Tenn.
Waxhaw massacre: The Hermitage, Home of President Andrew Jackson, Nashville, Tenn.
Jackson resisting the British officer: The Hermitage, Home of President Andrew Jackson, Nashville, Tenn.
Adoption of Lyncoya: Tennessee State Library and Archives
Victory at the Battle of New Orleans: Bettmann/Corbis
Anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans: Hulton Archive, photo by MPI/Getty Images
John Quincy Adams: Brown Brothers, Sterling, Pa.
Louisa Catherine Adams: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A./Art Resource, N.Y.
Bill of atrocities: The Granger Collection, New York
View of the city of Washington: White House Historical Association (White House Collection)
Jackson’s inauguration: Ceiling mural by Allyn Cox, part of The Hall of Capitols of the Cox Corridors in the House wing of the U.S. Capitol. Photo courtesy of the Architect of the Capitol / Library of Congress.
The White House: Brown Brothers, Sterling, Pa.
View from outside of the “storming of the White House”: Brown Brothers, Sterling, Pa.
Inaugural festivities and chaos inside the White House: White House Historical Association (White House Collection). Painting by Louis S. Glanzman.
Martin Van Buren: Brown Brothers, Sterling, Pa.
John C. Calhoun: Brown Brothers, Sterling, Pa.
Amos Kendall: Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Francis Preston Blair: Culver Pictures
Margaret Bayard Smith: After the portrait by Charles Bird King, in the possession of her grandson, J. Henley Smith, Washington, from The First Forty Years of Washington Society by Gaillard Hunt (ed.)
Ezra Stiles Ely: Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Joel R. Poinsett: The Granger Collection, New York
Theodore Frelinghuysen: Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Daniel Webster: Brown Brothers, Sterling, Pa.
Henry Clay: Brown Brothers, Sterling, Pa.
Cartoon of Clay sewing Jackson’s lips: Bettmann/Corbis
Struggle in Charleston Harbor: Painting by Robert Lavin, from the U.S. Coast Guard Art Collection. Permission to reprint courtesy of John Lavine and Susan Foregger.
Portrait of Margaret Eaton: Bettmann/Corbis
Cartoon of Jackson abandoned by “rats”: Bettmann/Corbis
Second Bank of the United States: Hulton Archive, photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images
Nicholas Biddle: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A./Art Resource, N.Y.
Portrait of John Henry Eaton: Culver Pictures
Portrait of Edward Livingston: Stapleton Collection/Corbis
First assassination attempt: Brown Brothers, Sterling, Pa.
Portrait of Roger B. Taney: Brown Brothers, Sterling, Pa.
Cartoon of “King” Jackson: Culver Pictures
Quallah Battoo: Colonel Charles Waterhouse and the Waterhouse Museum
Second assassination attempt: Culver Pictures
Portrait of Hugh Lawson White: Culver Pictures
Portrait of Thomas Hart Benton: The Granger Collection, New York
Jeremiah Evarts: Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Battle of Bad Axe: The Granger Collection, New York
Supreme Court ruling on the Cherokees: Private Collection/Peter Newark American Pictures/The Bridgeman Art Library
The Trail of Tears: The Granger Collection, New York
Jackson in old age: Tennessee Historical Society Collections, Tennessee State Library and Archives
Jackson on his deathbed: The Granger Collection, New York
Jackson’s tomb: The Hermitage, Home of President Andrew Jackson, Nashville, Tenn.
Lincoln’s inauguration: The Granger Collection, New York
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JON MEACHAM is the editor of Newsweek. The author of the New York Times bestsellers Franklin and Winston and American Gospel, he lives in New York City with his wife and three children.
