The Age of Jackson

The Age of Jackson is a book about the Jacksonian era of United States history that was written by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. The Age of Jackson won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1946.

The Age of Jackson largely ignored the sectionalism of the antebellum United States and, "obviously influenced by the New Deal," Schlesinger focused on what he considered to be Jackson's appeal to the working class. One book reviewer recommended it as a "delightful piece of propaganda" in which Schlesinger skillfully created character portraits of the major personalities in the Jacksonian era. Another reviewer that found that minute detail withal, in Schlesinger's depiction of the period between 1828 and 1868 the central conflict was "privilege and nonprivilege, wealth and poverty, conservatism and radicalism." The Journal of Southern History reviewer credited Schlesinger with being at his "best in his chapters on Jacksonian democracy in relation to such matters as law, industrialism, literature, and religion."