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God, the founding fathers, and the making of a nation. The author states that he named the book american lion in order to capture the contradictions at jacksons core, because if he was on your side he would do all he could to protect you, but. The idea and image of a strong president claiming a mandate from the voters to unite the nation and direct the affairs of the country from the white house took permanent root in the age. In the wake of the contested election of 2000 and amid growing complaints of the dirtiness of politics, we might do well to look back to jackson s dirty and hotly contested race for the. During his lifetime the united states came into being and gained large new tracts of territory. So for those who have never read marquis james or robert reminis multivolume depiction of jackson, the first 180 pages of this book read like a season story arch of a.
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