1975, ISBN: 9780394482040

New York. 1975. May 1975. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket . 0394482042. 373 pages. hardcover. Cover: Asher B. Durand-'Andrew Jackson' & Albr… Mehr…

New York. 1975. May 1975. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket . 0394482042. 373 pages. hardcover. Cover: Asher B. Durand-'Andrew Jackson' & Albrecht Durer-'King Death on Horseback'. keywords: American Indian America History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In a provocative psychological study, Michael Paul Rogin reveals the dark interior of Jackson's life and career - his complex, deep-seated hostility toward the American Indians and his central responsibility for their destruction. Overcoming severe early difficulties - a speech impediment similar to that of Melville's Billy Budd, prolonged childhood illness, the loss of both parents - Jackson rose to become a successful lawyer, politician, land speculator, and slave owner on the Tennessee frontier. The ‘architect of his own fortunes,' a self-made man subservient to no one, he embodied the triumphant aspects of the popular mythology of the post-Revolutionary era, when the patriarchal order in politics and society was crumbling, freeing men to make their own ways, alone and unfettered. Yet, the psychic cost of liberation was extremely high: ‘it intensified loneliness, vengeful disappointment, and separation anxiety.' Thus, Jackson, in freeing himself from his personal burdens and satisfying a compelling, fundamental need for authority, constructed for himself and his contemporaries a new paternal order to both supplant and honor the Founding Fathers' ambiguous legacy of independence, virtue, and opportunity. Its first premise was the removal of the Indian from his tribal lands in the southeastern United States.Rogin argues that Jacksonian Democracy - emphasizing laissez-faire capitalism, liberal egalitarianism, governmental reform, and westward expansion and symbolized by Jackson's war with the Bank of the United States - emerged from this anxious and deadly background to dominate American politics for a generation before the Civil War. inventory #22060 ISBN: 0394482042., 0<

ISBN: 9780394482040

Fawn M. Brodie has called Fathers and Children "the most brilliant psychoanalytic study of an American president yet published-altogether extraordinary." Michael Paul Rogin's volume is no… Mehr…

Fawn M. Brodie has called Fathers and Children "the most brilliant psychoanalytic study of an American president yet published-altogether extraordinary." Michael Paul Rogin's volume is now available in paperback for the fi rst time. Andrew Jackson-valiant defender of New Orleans against the British, stalwart spokesman for the Union against nullifi cation, the common man's champion against special interests-has been considered a great president and a symbol for his age. Now Rogin reveals the dark interior of Jackson's life and career, his hostility toward the American Indian and his responsibility in seeking their destruction. "The architect of his own fortunes," a self-made man subservient to no one, Jackson embodies the triumphant aspects of the popular mythology of the post-Revolutionary era, when the patriarchal order in politics and society was crumbling, freeing people to make their own ways, alone and unfettered. Media > Book, [PU: Grove Press]<