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Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants: A Study in Political Culture

Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants: A Study in Political Culture

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in American History, Book 176

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0313299587
ISBN13: 9780313299582
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Jun 18 1997
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.85 Depth: 8.59
Language: English

Andrew Jackson and those Tennesseans who, along with him, were a major force in Tennessee and American political life can best be understood by examining the political culture they all shared. The ten men studied here were the children or grandchildren of immigrants from either the Scottish lowlands or the north of Ireland. All experienced the rise from the yeoman/artisan class to that of landed gentry, and all displayed in their adult lives the influence of that move from one socioeconomic class to another. This view of Jackson and his closest friends suggests a view of these men's motives; their values, attitudes, and beliefs were somewhat different than historians have pictured for us. These Jacksonians sought to preserve the world of their fathers while changing their place in the world. They looked back but moved ahead; they were self-interested but tempered always by a selfless ideal.

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Ratner, Lorman A.

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19th Century United States History