The book offers fresh and illuminating portraits of both Adams and Jackson and reveals how, despite their vastly different backgrounds, they had started out with many of the same values, admired one another, and had often been allies in common causes. But by 1828, caught up in a shifting political landscape, they were plunged into a competition that separated them decisively from the Founding Fathers' era and ushered in a style of politics that is still with us today.

• Editor's Note


• Preface to the Paperback


• Prologue


• Chapter 1


• Chapter 2


• Chapter 3


• Chapter 4


• Chapter 5


• Chapter 6


• Epilogue


• Acknowledgments


• Notes


• Index

Lynn Hudson Parsons is Professor of History Emeritus at the State University of New York College at Brockport. He is the author of John Quincy Adams and coeditor, with Kenneth Paul O'Brien, of The Home-Front War: World War II and American Society.