Item #14920 The Life of Martin Van Buren, Heir-Apparent to the "Government," and the Appointed Successor of General Andrew Jackson. Containing Every Authentic Particular by Which his Extraordinary Character has been Formed. With a Concise History of the Events that have Occasioned his Unparalleled Elevation; Together with a Review of His Policy as a Statesman. David Crockett.

Crockett, David

The Life of Martin Van Buren, Heir-Apparent to the "Government," and the Appointed Successor of General Andrew Jackson. Containing Every Authentic Particular by Which his Extraordinary Character has been Formed. With a Concise History of the Events that have Occasioned his Unparalleled Elevation; Together with a Review of His Policy as a Statesman

Philadelphia: Robert Wright, 1835.

First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4.5" x 7", pp 209, 24 (publisher's ads). Worn contemporary cloth boards with paper spine label. Lacking rear endpaper, some foxing, label of St. Joseph's College, Bardstown, KY affixed to front board. Good. An anti-Jackson, anti-Van Buren campaign biography that may or may not actually have been written by Crockett, but did represent his general sentiments. Crockett vehemently opposed many of Jackson's policies, and wrote in his autobiography of feeling pressured while in Congress "to bow to the name Andrew Jackson and follow all his motions, and mindings, and turnings, even at the expense of my conscience and better judgment." Here, Van Buren is described as Jackson's hand-picked successor rather than a choice of the people--a purely political creature, sly, hypocritical, and dishonest in pursuit of personal interest. "Martin Van Buren is not the man he is cracked up to be; and if he is made President of the United States, he will have reached a place to which he is not entitled...he owes his good luck to the hangers-on of office who, to serve themselves, have used the popularity of Jackson to abuse the country with Martin Van Buren." Sabin 17567; Howees C-899.