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The life of andrew jackson remini5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() After three years in the service I realized I wanted to spend the rest of my life reading and writing and teaching history. I even read all nine volumes of Henry Adams’s History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and I loved every page. Fortunately World War II came along and I found myself aboard a ship plying the Atlantic and reading histories of the United States. ![]() Not because I was intrigued by the law but because it seemed like a worthy profession then for a child of the Great Depression. For example, when I graduated from college I fully intended to become a lawyer. To a very large extent my career as an historian, such as it is, was determined by events over which I had little control. ![]() He is also the author of biographies of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, as well as a dozen other books on Jacksonian America, and is considered the most preeminent scholar on Andrew Jackson and his times. Remini has written a three-volume biography of Andrew Jackson, the third volume of the series, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1984. ![]() House of Representatives, and has been named House Historian. He is currently at work on a narrative history of the U.S. Remini is professor emeritus of history and the humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago. ![]()
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