This novel was first secretly printed in the year 1836 in an attempt to foil the election of Martin Van Buren, whom the author fears will carry out what he considers the imperial policies of Andrew Jackson, "King Andrew the First." The author predicts that the rights of the States will be abused and finally lost. Written in the early 1830s after the South Carolina Nullification Crisis, Tucker has woven a futuristic (for that time) romantic-politico...