Andrew Jackson
In 1860, author James Parton stated that Andrew Jackson was ” the most law-defying, law obeying citizen. ” Such the statement is inconsistent. Yet it accurately captures the significance of this famed, or notorious, Jackson. Without a doubt, the 7th president was a person of contradictions. To the day, historians have been unable to arrive at accepted decisions about his role or influence on this country. Was he, as Robert Remini has debated across the pages of more than one dozen books, the excellent leader, and a sign of the burgeoning collective ideology? Or was Jackson just a vainglorious bully with no experience for these people, responding in reaction to his sensitive feeling, as Andrew Burstein and others have asserted?