Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Gr ab

A thrilling narrative history of two men--President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee Chief John Ross--who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American historyFive decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States faced a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two men, former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. Jacksonland is their story.One man we recognize Andrew Jackson—war hero, populist, and exemplar of the expanding South—whose first major initiative as president instigated the massive expulsion of Native Americans known as the Trail of Tears. The other is a half-forgotten figure John Ross—a mixed-race Cherokee politician and diplomat—who used the United States own legal system and democratic ideals to oppose Jackson.