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Laddar... The Passions of Andrew Jacksonav Andrew Burstein
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Burstein covers the passions of Jackson who was a highly passionate person in many respects. Burstein states on C-Span that Jackson is "emotionally combustible". He is enigmatic and difficult to contain in one book. Burstein focuses more on the passions and not so much of the two term presidency. I recommend the book and enjoyed it. Jackson is so complex that it takes several books to get a grip on him. There is no one books that covers him well just the same as Washington and Jefferson. He grew up during the Revolution, was an Indian fighter, an Army General, hero of New Orleans, temporary governor of Fl, served in Congress, and elected to presidency 3 times by popular vote, the first time losing to JQA in the Senate. This extremely long career is practically impossible to cover in one book. Burstein does cover well his passions. You may see a video of Burstein discussing this book on C Span and its very good......http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ThePass Prof. Burstein of Tulsa University is an expert in the language of early American politics. In this illuminating book, he applies that expertise to Andrew Jackson. Using letters, memos, etc., Burstein structures a biography of Jackson rich in literary and linguistic analysis. He shows how Jackson viewed the world in terms of honor and loyalty, sometimes to the exclusion of all else. The author then uses these insights to explain Jackson’s several duels, his intense friendships, which sometimes ended in affairs of honor, and his inability to see that his political opponents sometimes had valid points. To Jackson, you were either for his policies, and therefore for him, or against his policies and therefore against him personally. In the concluding chapter, Prof. Burstein sums up Jackson’s place in history beside Washington and Jefferson. The author argues that these three presidents were more alike than we sometimes remember, but all are products of their times and cultures. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"What transformed a frontier bully into the seventh president of the United States? A southerner obsessed with personal honor who threatened his enemies with duels to the death, a passionate man who fled to Spanish Mississippi with the love of his life before she was divorced, Andrew Jackson of Tennessee left a vast personal correspondence detailing his stormy relationship with the world of early America. He helped shape the American personality, yet he remains largely unknown to most modern readers. Now historian Andrew Burstein (The Inner Jefferson, America's Jubilee) brings back Jackson with all his audacity and hot-tempered rhetoric." "Burstein gives us our first major reevaluation of Jackson's life in a generation. Unlike the extant biographies, Burstein examines Jackson's close relationships, discovering how the candidate advanced his political chances through a network of army friends - some famous, like Sam Houston, who became a hero himself; others, equally important, who have been lost to history until now. Yet due to his famous temper, Jackson ultimately lost his closest confidants to the opposition party." "The Passions of Andrew Jackson includes a fresh interpretation of Jackson's role in the Aaron Burr conspiracy and offers a more intimate view of the backcountry conditions and political setting that shaped the Tennessean's controversial understanding of democracy. This is the dynamic story of a larger-than-life American brought down to his authentic earthiness and thoughtfully demythologized. In a provocative conclusion, Burstein relates Jackson to the presidents with whom he was and still is often compared, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson."--Jacket. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)973.56092History and Geography North America United States 1809-1845 Andrew Jackson (4 Mar. 1829-4 Mar. 1837)Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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