Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson served as the seventh president of the United States and dominated Democratic politics during the 1820s and 1830s. Slander Refuted, in Two Letters from Andrew Jackson preserves letters published in Philadelphia in 1838. He used them to defend his support for Martin Van Buren and answer claims about banking and currency. Related material involving John C. Calhoun and James Buchanan places the exchange within a wider partisan dispute. Readers encounter a compact primary source rather than a later biography, seeing how private correspondence entered national debate after Jackson left office. Slander Refuted, in Two Letters from Andrew Jackson documents his party loyalties, combative style, and place in the period's political print culture.