Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-472) and index
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Nascent Jacksonian: ancestry, Kentucky days, and the emergence of a western democrat -- I: The making of a Jacksonian: Missouri years (1816-1826) -- Land speculator, lawyer, merchant, and general -- politics and panic -- New pursuits and a new career -- II: the election of 1828: Jacksonian partisan -- Ideology, party system, and party press -- Defense of Jackson, attack on the coalition and the corrupt bargain -- The Calhoun factor -- The issues: tariff, internal improvements, and slavery -- Victory! -- III: Jackson's first administration (1829-1833): Jacksonian apostate -- Appointments and patronage -- The rise of the globe -- The Jackson-Calhoun correspondence -- The Eaton affairs -- The election of 1832 -- IV: Jackson's second administration (1833-1837): Jacksonian adversary -- The nullification crisis -- The bank war -- Slavery -- V: Defeat, dejection, and diversions: Jacksonian American -- The printing business -- The election of 1836 -- New pursuits -- VI: Agent of Manifest destiny: Jacksonian expansionist -- England -- England and Texas -- England, Texas, and Mexico -- Little hickory's wars -- Jacksonian capitalist and territorial expansion -- The last years of a Jacksonian American
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"Drawing on previously unexploited primary sources, Belko illuminates the wide-ranging influence of Duff Green as land speculator, entrepreneur, lawyer, militia officer, politician, and newspaper editor. Disputing common assumption, Green is portrayed as a political moderate and independent westerner who played a fundamental role in the shaping of Jacksonian America"--Provided by publisher