2.6 Andrew Jackson 1

Empire, Republic and Shadow Wars

Shawn Warswick

Education, History, Self-improvement

4.4 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail In this episode we introduce one of the most controversial of all American presidents, Andrew Jackson. We look at his life, his exploits as a general, and the election of 1824. Support the show

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0:00.0	The American History Podcast, season two, episode six, Andrew Jackson, part one.
0:10.6	Welcome to the American History podcast.
0:16.2	Hosted by Sean Worswick.
0:43.1	Thank you. Hosted by Sean Worswick. Welcome for Welcome, friends, listeners one and all.
0:48.3	This is episode six of season two, and we are finally into the meat of the season.
0:53.8	I hope you've enjoyed listening to the crash course as much as I enjoyed making those episodes.
0:59.3	If so, then I think you're going to totally enjoy the episodes that are coming up next.
1:04.2	Again, as always, if you have any comments or questions, concerns, please email me.
1:07.8	My info is Sean at AmericanHistripodcast.com.
1:12.1	You can also find me on Twitter at AmericanHISCast, and I look forward to hearing from you so, please don't be shy. All right, so on with it. Let's get into Andrew Jackson.
1:18.2	Now, if there's any president from the 19th century who's controversial, it's Andrew Jackson.
1:23.4	One of the best quotes about Jackson that I've ever seen is one given to us by James Parton, the first man to write a biography of Jackson after Jackson died. In it, Parton says, quote, Andrew Jackson was a patriot and a traitor. He was one of the greatest generals and wholly ignorant of the art of war. A brilliant writer, elegant, eloquent, without being able to
1:46.0	compose a correct sentence or spell words of four syllables, a democratic autocrat, and
1:51.9	Rubin Savage, an atrocious saint. Even when Jackson was alive, he was controversial,
1:59.5	and as you can see in the years right after his
2:01.9	death, all the way up to now, he's still controversial even today. Now, Robert Remini, a historian who
2:10.2	specialized in the age of Jackson, wrote a three-volume biography of the former president, one which
2:15.5	was somewhat controversial amongst historians
2:18.3	in that it treats Jackson, according to at least one critic, as Jackson would have wanted to be
2:24.3	seen. In other words, the works are quite flattering. Now, some have criticized the biographies
2:31.0	as being old school, but the final volume did win the National
2:35.0	Book Award in 1984 for whatever it's worth. Should also mention that for all of its faults.
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