Female on the 10 Dollar Bill

[Thomas Thorne]

(06-27-2015 10:47 AM)Wild Bill Wrote:  Ooops! Franklin is on the $100.

No surprise to you, Tom, but Jackson is my favorite president. He is condemned for being a duelist, a slaveholder, and driving the Civilized Tribes from the South. Most of his duels concerned his having to marry his wife twice as his wife thought her original husband had gotten a divorce. The story is that an old slave of Jackson when asked upon Jackson's death, if the general had gone to heaven. The slave said heave. The questioner scoffed, whereupon the old slave said, "If General Jackson wanted to go to heaven, you may be sure he is there. On Indian Removal I suggest that you read Francis Paul Prucha, “Andrew Jackson’s Indian Policy: A Reassessment,” Journal of American History 56 (1969): 527–39

Thank Bill for the reading advice

One of the first adult biographies I read was Marquis James' adulatory book on Andrew Jackson. James was a wonderful story teller who could hook anyone on history. My favorite Jackson story from him -I hope it is true-is about the only postmaster Jackson inherited from JQ Adams whom he refused to fire. When asked why, Old Hickory burst out,"By the Eternal, that old man{the postmaster} has a British ball in his breast!"

James won the Pulitzer for his Jackson book as did Arthur Schlesinger Jr in 1945 for what may have been the silliest book I had to read in college, "The Age of Jackson." Hopelessly addicted to his fanciful notion of rigid alternation of conservative and liberal eras and shoehorning his villains as conservatives and his heroes as liberals,Schlesinger converted Jackson into a frontier Franklin Roosevelt.

If Laurie Verge wants to see the most grotesque example of "presentism" 1945 edition, she should read this book.

Schlesinger went on to become the official Kennedy court historian whose biographies of John and Robert Kennedy did not mention their deaths.
Tom