Mr. Ward, who teaches at Princeton, very successfully illustrates
his point that Jackson more than marked an age- he belonged to it.
How and why he did are treated in three sections of the book,
dealing with the concepts of nature, providence and will
respectively, each of which succinctly demonstrates the growth and
operation of important trends in American political and
philosophical thought. They were based in the logic and
practicality of America's growth and revealed themselves as faith
in the man of nature whose common sense was unerring, in an
imputation to God of a special solicitude for the new United
States, and in the ideal of a self sufficient individualism.
Sometimes naturally, sometimes from political expediency, Jackson
personified these traits and their offshoots. The battle with Adams
for the presidency highlights the preference for innate wisdom,
untrammeled by the spider webs of book learning that so often
seemed to identify itself with the European etiquette and
courtliness the frontiersmen repudiated. Jackson at the battle of
New Orleans said this in so many words; but further, the victory
was divined to have been brought on by God's intervention as well.
God was on our side and our destiny later became "manifest".
Jackson then was all of these- the man of self determined action,
of God's right hand, of natural understanding. Backgrounding and
projecting these elements with colorful scholarliness, Mr. Ward
remains unbiassed, passing judgment only by withholding praise.
(Kirkus Reviews)
Was the man who lent his name to "Jacksonian America" a rough-hewn frontiersman? A powerful, victorious general? Or merely a man of will? Separating myth from reality, John William Ward here demonstrates how Andrew Jackson captured the imagination of a generation of Americans and came to represent not just leadership but the ideal of courage, foresight, and ability.
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