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Title: Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age by John William, Ward ISBN: 0-19-500699-2 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1955 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Enlightening American History
Comment: As one generation describes slices of history to another, the events and personalities are altered in the process. Ward shows how Jackson's persona emerged in the transfer of historical knowledge from one generation to the next.
In earning a national reputation as a war hero in the Battle of New Orleans, Jackson credited God with the victory and saw himself as a chosen instrument in His hands.
A city-wide religious ceremony was held in the aftermath of that victory. All New Orleans acknowledged humble thanksgiving to God for the successful defense of the city.
Riding the crest of this military popularity Jackson was elected president and the masses who turned out for his inaugural events were unlike any other before him. His administration was a shift from the elite to a populous approach to government. Ward includes helpful anecdotes to keep the readers abreast of some of the details of the time and places covered.
Rating: 4
Summary: cultural history at its best
Comment: As a self pro-claimed cultural historian, John William Ward is attempting to demonstrate how Andrew Jackson captured the imagination of the people of his time (early nineteenth century America) and how the ideals of the period were "fused" in him through symbolism and myth. Although Andrew Jackson was a political figure who served as President of the United States, this book serves a "cultural study of Jackson's time" rather than a political history of his presidency. The thesis of the book is that Jackson, "who was the age's hero in a wider sense than has been commonly realized" symbolized to the people of the United States all those things upopn which they based thier national pride. This national pride, Ward contends, rested upon three main concepts; "Nature", "Providence", and "Will". These three concepts serve as major themes in the developmnet of Ward's thesis. Ward makes a very compelling argument and thouroughly supports it throughout the book with relative evidence including a variety of newspaper articles and headlines, political cartoons, speeches, poems, songs, letters, diaries, euolgies, government documents, and historical biographies. Overall, the structure of the book, the development of the thesis as it relates to the major themes, and the way in which Ward skillfully interweaves descriptive information with analytical reasoning makes for a very clear, concise, relatively easy, and interesting read. Although this book is not a political or narative history, it is a valuable and stimulating resource for any student seeking to understand this particular period in American history.
Rating: 5
Summary: An american original
Comment: Ward was a deep, even radical, but at the same time understated, American thinker at a time when almost all of his colleagues preferred either to play it safe or to grandstand stylistically. His books were dry and careful, but produced definitive classics of the field. Jackson is his best known, but he himself preferred his translation of Grimke. To see true American thought at work, read this book.
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Title: Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (American Century Series) by Harry L. Watson, Eric Foner ISBN: 0374521964 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub. Date: 01 January, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Fall River Outrage: Life, Murder and Justice in Early Industrial New England by David R. Kasserman ISBN: 0812212223 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1986 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A House Divided: Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1865 (American Moment) by Richard H. Sewell ISBN: 0801835321 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America 1815-1846 by Charles Sellers ISBN: 0195089200 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: 1831: Year of Eclipse by Louis P. Masur ISBN: 0809041197 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub. Date: 09 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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