Andrew Burstein, Author . Knopf $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-41428-2
This book will not endear its subject to readers, even if the author is correct in the claim that he's made Jackson more "knowable." Burstein (Sentimental Democracy; America's Jubilee) writes fluidly and argues energetically. But...
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Andrew Burstein, Author . Basic $25 (351p) ISBN 978-0-465-00812-4
Perhaps more than any other founding father, the author of the Declaration of Independence has been judged harshly by posterity for being a slaveholder and having a slave concubine. How did Jefferson assess himself at his life's end? Drawing on...
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Andrew Burstein, Author . Basic $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-465-00853-7
University of Tulsa's Burstein, best known for his studies of Thomas Jefferson (Jefferson's Secrets
), offers a serviceable biography of another early American celebrity: Washington Irving, whom Burstein credits with creating a national...
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Andrew Burstein, Author University of Virginia Press $37.5 (356p) ISBN 978-0-8139-1618-7
Burstein, an independent scholar who has taught and written extensively on early American history, has fashioned a book that should attract a wide readership. Making particular use of Jefferson's letters, Burstein attempts to reveal the inner man...
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Andrew Burstein, Author Hill & Wang $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8090-8535-4
As the season of impeachment subsides and the campaign season looms on the horizon, readers with an interest in American political expression would do well to turn to Burstein (The Inner Jefferson). The American Revolution, he writes, would have...
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Andrew Burstein, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-375-41033-8
It has become fashionable for historians to select a given year as the focus of their inquiry and to give a portrait of a country or the whole world in that year (see Louis P. Maur's 1831, Forecasts, Dec. 11, and John E. Wills's 1688, Forecasts, Dec.
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Andrew Burstein. Palgrave Macmillan, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-137-27827-2
This quirky, episodic 200-year gambol explores the development of the American Dream by unpacking Americans’ dreams. Historian Burstein (Madison and Jefferson, coauthor) interweaves dense cultural history and cutting-edge research to argue that...
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Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Random, $35 (832p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6728-2
This thick but satisfyingly rich dual biography promotes Madison from junior partner to full-fledged colleague of the "more magnetic" Jefferson. According to the authors, Madison's popular image peaked in 1789 as "father of the Constitution." But...
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Andrew Burstein. Johns Hopkins Univ, $34.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-421-44830-5
Historian Burstein (Jefferson’s Secrets) offers an incisive exploration of the emotional landscape of early America, from the Revolutionary era to the Civil War. Drawing on letters and diaries of 18th- and 19th-century Americans—mostly written...
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Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein. Viking, $35 (576p) ISBN 978-0-525-55750-0
Historians Isenberg and Burstein (Madison and Jefferson) reteam to provide a densely packed double-decker reassessment of the lives and political foresight of father-and-son presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. The time period ranges from...
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