The Life of Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson: The Border Captain (1933) and Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President (1937), written by Marquis James and published by Bobbs-Merrill, are two volumes of a two-part biography of seventh United States president Andrew Jackson. The Border Captain leaves off in 1821, and Portrait of a President covers from 1822 (age 55) until Jackson's death in 1845. The two-volume biography shared the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1938. The two volumes were published in 1938 as one 1080-page volume under the title The Life of Andrew Jackson.