Robert Vincent Remini, Author . Viking $26.95 (317p) ISBN 978-0-670-91025-0
"I want to assure the reader that it is not my intention to excuse or exonerate Andrew Jackson for the role he played in the removal of Native Americans west of the Mississippi River. My purpose is simply to explain what happened and why":...
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Robert Vincent Remini, Author . Viking/Lipper $19.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-03083-5
This accessible biography by Remini, a historian whose three-volume biography of Andrew Jackson won the National Book Award, makes a fine contribution to the field of Mormon studies. Remini has an engaging writing style, as when he suggests that...
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Robert Vincent Remini, Author . Collins/Smithsonian $34.95 (614p) ISBN 978-0-06-088434-5
National Book Award winner Remini (Andrew Jackson
) offers the definitive history of "the People's House." Envisioned as the more democratic half of America's bicameral legislature, the House first convened on April 1, 1789. As...
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Robert Vincent Remini, Author . Harper $27.95 (373p) ISBN 978-0-06-083144-8
To write a thorough, balanced history of the United States in under 400 pages is no mean feat. Remini, professor of history emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a National Book Award winner for his work on Andrew Jackson, deftly...
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Robert Vincent Remini, Author . Basic $24 (184p) ISBN 978-0-465-01288-6
The National Book Award–winning biographer of Andrew Jackson focuses on Henry Clay, who as an aging, ill Kentucky senator spearheaded the Compromise of 1850, a complex balancing of Northern and Southern interests that averted Southern...
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Robert Vincent Remini, Author W. W. Norton & Company $50 (796p) ISBN 978-0-393-04552-9
In 1846, an Alabama congressman lashed into Webster on the House floor as a man of ""two characters... as his interests or necessities demand--`the God-like Daniel,' and `Black Dan!' "" Remini, biographer of Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson, presents...
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Robert Vincent Remini, Author HarperCollins Publishers $27.95 (412p) ISBN 978-0-06-015904-7
Remini is the author of an acclaimed three-volume biography of the seventh president and now follows up with a superb condensation that incorporates the results of recent research. He describes Old Hickory's early struggle to overcome his reputation
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Robert Vincent Remini, Author W. W. Norton & Company $35 (818p) ISBN 978-0-393-03004-4
By the distinguished biographer of Andrew Jackson, this is the first major study of the ``great compromiser'' in half a century. Henry Clay's prolonged feud with Jackson and his failed quest for the White House are traced in detail, with Remini...
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Robert Vincent Remini, Author, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., Editor . Holt/Times $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6939-6
John and Abigail Adams's son was arguably the most brilliant man ever to occupy the White House. He was also probably the least temperamentally fit to do so. Nevertheless, as this straightforward biography reminds us, John Quincy Adams (1767
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Robert Vincent Remini, Author, Robert Vincent Remini, Preface by Viking Books $24.95 (226p) ISBN 978-0-670-88551-0
As the alpha wolf of Jackson scholars and a master of historical narrative, Remini (whose three-volume biography, Andrew Jackson, won a National Book Award and was reissued last year) is the perfect writer to recount how Old Hickory, leading a...
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