Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Harlow has announced only one change in the tentative starting lineup: Charley Roche, 175-pound Freshman back from Winchester, replaces Bill Jackson in the tailback position. Right end Don Swegan will not be ready for tomorrow's game. HARVARD COAST GUARD DeLuzio, le le, Reed Fisher, lt lt, Brandfass Allen, lg lg, Boon Faber, c c, Burke LeBart, rg rg, Prunski Foster, rt rt, Starr Champion, re re, Caldwell Tennant, qb qb, Gaither Roche, lhb lhb, Duin Flynn, rhb rhb, Lattin Cowen, fb fb, Dorsey...
...Schlesinger's purpose in the Age of Jackson is to re-examine the political ideas and motives that animated the Jacksonian leaders of the masses, and to establish these ideas as the missing link between the somewhat contradictory body of theory and practice known as Jeffersonianism and the somewhat contradictory body of theory and practice called the New Deal. The result is an unusually readable history about one of the most opaque episodes in the American past...
...series of crisp biographical sketches, Schlesinger resuscitates the men around Jackson, some of them members of his official family, some of them members of the unofficial "Kitchen Cabinet" which sometimes played a more effective role in governing the country than the cabinet officers. Many of these men have been forgotten. There was Thomas Hart Benton ("He had a giant conviction that he and the people were one. 'Nobody opposes Benton,' he would roar, pronouncing it 'Bane-ton,' 'but a few blackjack prairie lawyers; these are the only opponents of Benton. Benton and the people...
...irregular yellow teeth, generally clamped on a long black cigar, he made a bad first impression," but his reasoning and his conviction won him friends). There was Amos Kendall, the Harry Hopkins of the age ("his chronic bad health may have created a special bond with the President, and Jackson soon began to rely on Kendall for aid in writing his messages. . . . Gradually, Kendall's supreme skill in interpreting, verbalizing and documenting Jackson's intuitions made him indispensable...
Chronic Inflammation. It is Author Schlesinger's novel contention that the orthodox schoolmen have been wrong about Jackson's popular support. Says Schlesinger: The enduring basis of Jackson's strength was not the intermittent radicalism of the West and South, but the chronic radicalism of the Eastern working classes. It was alliance with them which enabled Jacksonism to advance beyond Jeffersonism, to the Jeffersonian insistence on political freedom, Jacksonism added the insistence on economic freedom-the catchword of the New Deal...