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A readable, finely tuned look at Andrew Jackson
2005
Overview
There is no question that in his lifetime, [Andrew Jackson] came to embody the notion that an ordinary white man could rise and prosper, and that democracy's most-emphatic message--popular self-government-- was more than a slogan. But Brands is, understandably, less interested in the symbolic Jackson than the striving Jackson. It remains debatable whether that Jackson--the flesh-and-blood Jackson, an unapologetic slave owner and strong national executive--was stern and arbitrary because the politics of the democracy functionally demanded it; and whether his inability to keep many of his most- devoted political friends (an element of Jackson's political life that apparently eludes Brands) proved he was disruptive, self- deluding and dangerous.
Publisher
Tribune Publishing Company, LLC
