"Andrew Jackson is one of the most critical and controversial figures in American history. A dominant actor on the American scene in the period between the Revolution and Civil War, he stamped his name first on a mass political movement and then an era. At the same time Jackson's ascendancy accelerated the dispossession and death of Native Americans and spurred the expansion of slavery. 'The Papers of Andrew Jackson' is a project to collect and publish Jackson's entire extant literary record. The project is now producing a series of seventeen volumes that will bring Jackson's most important papers to the public in easily readable form."--

In the tradition (and unified format) of previous entries in this fine series, this bibliography of the seventh president (1829-1837) itemizes and annotates primary resources including government documents and manuscript collections, monographs, articles, chapters and essays, and dissertations and theses. It also includes a most useful 11-page chronology of events in the life of Jackson (1767-1845), as well as detailed author and subject indexes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This fifth volume of 'The Papers of Andrew Jackson' documents Jackson's retirement from the military in 1821 and his emergence as the leading presidential candidate in 1824.