Author to Speak at Public Library

New Book Traces Steps of Andrew Jackson

Carlton Jackson’s new book Bittersweet Journey, Andrew Jackson’s Inaugural Trip explores Jackson’s three-week voyage along the Cumberland and Ohio rivers (including an overnight stay in Clarksville), the overland journey to Washington, the places he visited and the people he met as he traveled to Washington, DC to become the young nation’s seventh president. What was to be a celebratory trip, greeting well-wishers along the way, was instead a sad time for Jackson, whose wife, Rachel, had died just weeks earlier and was buried on Christmas Eve, 1828.

Author Carlton Jackson will be retracing part of the journey himself by speaking at the Hermitage in July and visiting the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library on Saturday, August 13th at 1 p.m. to talk about his book and to sign copies of it until 4 p.m.

Jackson is a University Distinguished Professor of History at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green Kentucky, where he has taught since 1961. This event is free and open to the public.  

For further information, contact Martha Hendricks, Interim Director, Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library at 931-648-8826, x61402 or martha@clarksville.org