Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thanks to Reader Williams for a spirited contribution to the timeless debate on the nature of the American Faith. But Alexander Hamilton was born on the island of Nevis, not Jamaica; Andrew Jackson was neither illiterate nor a pirate...
...really believe that? I myself have always believed that Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry and James Monroe (Virginians all) had some small part in establishing "the essential faith of America." And the Jamaica-born bastard Alexander Hamilton of New York, the illiterate pirate Andrew Jackson of Tennessee, the ribald Abraham Lincoln of Kentucky and Illinois, the uncouth Walt Whitman of Brooklyn-did these have no part in the work...
Raged Dr. Selig A. Shevin, resigning from the Jackson Park staff: "UnAmerican, unpatriotic, inhuman...
Triumph of a Personality. Andrew Jackson's career as a general lasted only 18 months. His success was more one of personality than of military skill. Irascible and impatient, he won his soldiers' admiration by a steady display of fire and courage. He did not hesitate to call his superiors in the War Department "intermeddling pimps and spies." His emergence as a popular hero was the result less of tactical victories over the British, Spanish and Indians than of his highhanded triumphs over entrenched officialdom and political chicanery...
...Jackson's Presidency was "a series of battles in which he exhibited the same qualities that had distinguished his military career. In his own view he fought for the people and the Union as before he had battled for the Republic." He left a profound impress on the office of the Presidency, but it was one of his own reckless and insurgent personality, not that of his incidental profession...