Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation

ISBN-13: 9780190088385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 352 str.

J. M. Opal

Opis

The most powerful American of his time, Andrew Jackson saw himself as the people's "great avenger." Yet his ideas also limited the people's sovereignty, imposing one kind of law to inflict one sort of "justice." Drawing from new evidence about Jackson and the southern frontiers, Avenging the People boldly reinterprets the man and his age.

Recenzje

The story of the bloody decades following the Revolution and the early development of the [Old Southwest] region is told graphically, succinctly, and with unusual and rewarding insight.

O autorze

J.M. Opal is Associate Professor of History at McGill University. He is the author of Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England and the editor of Common Sense and Other Writings by Thomas Paine.