Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking
office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most
Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States
in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of
westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now explores that era through
the lens of Harrison's career, providing a new synthesis of his
role in the political development of Indiana Territory and in
shaping Indian policy in the Old Northwest.
Owens traces Harrison's political career as secretary of the
Northwest Territory, territorial delegate to Congress, and governor
of Indiana Territory, as well as his military leadership and
involvement with Indian relations. Thomas Jefferson, who was
president during the first decade of the nineteenth century, found
in Harrison the ideal agent to carry out his administration's
ruthless campaign to extinguish Indian land titles.
More than a study of the man, "Mr. Jefferson's Hammer" is a
cultural biography of his fellow settlers, telling how this first
generation of post-Revolutionary Americans realized their vision of
progress and expansionism. It surveys the military, political, and
social world of the early Ohio Valley and shows that Harrison's
attitudes and behavior reflected his Virginia background and its
eighteenth-century notions as much as his frontier milieu.
To this day, we live with the echoes of Harrison's
proclamations, the boundaries set by his treaties, and the
ramifications of his actions. "Mr. Jefferson's Hammer" offers a
much needed reappraisal of Harrison's impact on the nation's
development and key lessons for understanding American sentiments
in the early republic.
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