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...acquainted with at least the popular legend type of American history. In History 5a the student will find some of his childhood beliefs supported, others ruthlessly destroyed, but in any case he will find a steady-moving, very thorough account of America from 1765 until the close of the Jacksonian...
Since the death of Jacksonian democracy the agrarian interests of the country have labored under the constant domination of the industrial and have swayed from one party to the other in a vain attempt to find a permanent resting place. The political subjugation of agriculture has been fully reflected by every administration since the Civil War. All efforts have been directed toward the encouragement of industry. The periodic uprisings of the farmers have been staved off by temporary palliatives. This policy has failed dismally since the World War, and the present situation of the farmer is the most serious problem...
...Jacksonian Democrat, McConaughy has few heroes besides Old Hickory. One of them is Aaron Burr, another his creature, the original Tammany Hall. "The picture of a Tammany victory as a beneficent act of God, with an Aaron Burr as the Divine instrument, is somewhat startling to us today. But it was accepted with delirious joy by a majority of our forefathers a hundred and thirty-odd years ago. . . ." Strict-interpretationist, McConaughy thinks the Constitution has never been given a trial, says it has been warped from the start by the Supreme Court into a shield for special privilege. He starts...
...Jacksonian Diplomacy," Professor Baxter, Harvard...
...camps, dominated by the two irreconcilables Hamilton and Jefferson. The bitter defeat of the Federalists inaugurated a long period of Republican supremacy coming to a tottering climax in the election of John Quincy Adams over Clay, Crawford, and Jackson. It is in the chapters on the struggles of the Jacksonian era that Mr. Lynch is most successful and brings out a series of interesting personalities and amusing anecdotes as readable as the pages of Claude Bowers...