Ep. 1250 In Defense of Andrew Jackson?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today Hillsdale College's Brad Birzer joins me to discuss his new book, In Defense of Andrew Jackson. We discuss Indian policy, the national bank, nullification, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1250. |
| 0:03.2 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.8 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:29.6 | Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here. Today, the subject of our conversation is Andrew Jackson, |
| 0:35.5 | president of the United States elected 1828, elected again in 1832. |
| 0:41.7 | And I'm speaking today with our old friend, a wonderful friend of this program, Brad Bursar, |
| 0:47.5 | who's a professor of history at Hillsdale College, prize-winning biographer of Russell Kirk, |
| 0:51.6 | and the author of the provocatively titled new book |
| 0:55.4 | in defense of Andrew Jackson. Now, if you've listened to this show for a while, you can |
| 1:00.5 | presume what my opinions on Andrew Jackson might be. I don't think we've actually devoted |
| 1:05.8 | an episode to Jackson. Come to think of it, we've talked about Madison, Jefferson, a great |
| 1:10.3 | many other people, but I don't know how much time I've spent on Jackson, if any, just an oversight, I guess, but now we're going to rectify that today. And I'll have a little pushback against Brad here because there are some things that Jackson did that I like, the campaign against the Second Bank of the United States, |
| 1:31.6 | everybody has to cheer that. But there are other things that are, shall we say, rather more controversial. We'll get into all of those in just a moment. Brad, welcome. |
| 1:35.4 | Thank you so much, Tom. Always glad to talk to you. All right. In defense of Andrew Jackson, |
| 1:40.3 | an extremely provocative title. No subtitle, very rare these days for a book, but that title |
| 1:46.1 | really says it all, doesn't it? So you and I are definitely going to disagree here because |
| 1:51.3 | although I can agree with Jackson on some things, and I do like his philosophy of equal rights |
| 1:57.9 | by which he means everyone has the equal right not to get anything from the |
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