Books by Robert Remini

A National Book Award-winning historian narrates Henry Clay's heroic brokering of a bipartisan compromise that saved the nation

In 1815 Britain's crack troops, fresh from the victories against Napoleon, were stunningly defeated near New Orleans by a ragtag army of citizen-soldiers under the commander they dubbed 'Old Hickory', Andrew Jackson. It was this battle that defined the United States as a military power to be reckoned with and an independent democracy here to stay.