
The Rise of Andrew Jackson
Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics
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Molly Parker Myers
The story of Andrew Jackson's improbable ascent to the White House, centered on the handlers and propagandists who made it possible.
Andrew Jackson was volatile and prone to violence, and well into his 40s, his sole claim on the public's affections derived from his victory in a 30-minute battle at New Orleans in early 1815. Yet those in his immediate circle believed he was a great man who should be president of the United States.
Jackson's election in 1828 is usually viewed as a result of the expansion of democracy. Historians David and Jeanne Heidler argue that he actually owed his victory to his closest supporters, who wrote hagiographies of him, founded newspapers to savage his enemies, and built a political network that was always on message. In transforming a difficult man into a paragon of republican virtue, the Jacksonites exploded the old order and created a mode of electioneering that has been mimicked ever since.
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"The Heidlers tell an engrossing story that covers a remarkably complex history in relatively few pages. It is a true page-turner."—New York Journal of Books
The authors are skeptical of Jackson, but do eventually give him some due. It's just as much a manipulation to refer to the battle of New Orleans as a 30 minute ordeal as to suppose that his having succeeded there implied his qualification for the presidency. Fortunately, such transparent overstatements fade after the opening of the book. For anyone more interested in either the times or Jackson, this is a good read/listen, but I wouldn't see it as a primary biography or anything of that sort.
A couple of cautions. (1) The first chapter or two are bouncy in time and topic and a bit harder to follow than I expected...but this gets easier. (2) The narrator has really excellent enunciation, but has a tendency to bounce back between the affectation of an actress reading copy for a television commercial and the more dry tones of the lady talking from my iPhone. Fortunately, this too gets more even and better after the first chapter or two.
I'd be happy to read/listen to anything written by these guys that grabbed my attention or from this reader.
A very interesting ancillary history/biography
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