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<p><P><b>By the acclaimed author of the classic <i>Patriots </i>and <i>Union 1812, </i>this major work of narrative history portrays four of the most turbulent decades in the growth of the American nation. <P></b>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 of the southeast who had lived and prospered for centuries on land that became Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. <P>Jackson, who had first gained fame as an Indian fighter, decreed that the Cherokees be forcibly removed from their rich cotton fields to make way for an exploding white population. His policy set off angry debates in Congress and protests from such celebrated Northern writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson. Southern slave owners saw that defense of the Cherokees as linked to a growing abolitionist movement. They understood that the protests would not end with protecting a few Indian tribes. <P>Langguth tells the dramatic story of the desperate fate of the Cherokees as they were driven out of Georg

Author

Langguth, A. J., 1933-2014

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781416548607

Subjects

History, Humanities