“The Life of Andrew Jackson” by Robert Remini is the single-volume abridgment of the author’s classic three-volume series on Andrew Jackson which was published between 19. I highly recommend this book as it will increase your appreciation of today's political landscape from reading our past's. Smears of sex scandals, corrupt dealings and lies to defame each other's character was just as prevalent then as today. Politics in the Jacksonian era could just as ugly as today. Prone to duels of honor and defending the "Sacred name" of his wife. Our energies now would be better spent in trying to solve the poverty and drug and alcohol abuse common on Native Reservations rather than pointing fingers at people long dead or their descendants who had nothing to do with it. Who was right and who was wrong is an academic point today. Americans kept moving westward and the Indians retaliated by butchering people in newly erected towns. It was also more complicated than I realize. The book did help develop an understanding to the Trail of Tears which is a sad mark in our nation's history. How much of that is believable depends on each person. They use the same rhetoric about being for the common man as they do today. In fact, the Democratic party was developed under Jackson. It is easy to see the origins of the Democratic platforms. A rather naive assumption on his part, but to his dying day he fought those like Henry Clay and Daniel Webster who believed in limited government. Jackson believed that only a large government represented everyone's interests and had fail-safe locks in the structure to keep corruption and self-interested individuals out. He destroyed the National Bank because he believed that private business exploited the under-privileged while promoting elitism. Later he became president and an ardent federalist. He fought in the 1812 War and lead his troops into New Orleans where they defeated the British, thus securing his reputation as a formidable military leader. Raised from humble beginnings, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, Jackson brought himself up by his own boot straps and worked his way into politics. Andrew Jackson could give Donald Trump a run for his money as far as colorful personalities go. The important thing about history is to realize that nothing new is happening. Love Andrew Jackson or hate him, and there's good reason for doing both, one thing you can never do is yawn at him.
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