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Presidential biography completists will find H.W. Brands's Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times more comprehensive, but this condensed political history will serve anyone seeking context about the country's first convention-breaking leader.
This highly recommended work details a very contentious process in which disparate political philosophies were debated and combined to create the republic that we know today. Readers should also consider Robert Middlekauff's Washington's Revolution, reviewed below.