| Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants: A Study in Political Culture Contributor(s): Ratner, Lormen A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0313299587 ISBN-13: 9780313299582 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1997 Annotation: The first study of the political culture of Jackson and his compatriots. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - History | Americas (north Central South West Indies) |
| Dewey: 973 |
| LCCN: 96050292 |
| Lexile Measure: 1410 |
| Series: Contributions in American History |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.85" W x 8.59" (0.73 lbs) 152 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Geographic Orientation - Tennessee - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Andrew Jackson and those Tennesseans who, along with him, were a major force in Tennessee and American political life can best be understood by examining the political culture they all shared. The ten men studied here were the children or grandchildren of immigrants from either the Scottish lowlands or the north of Ireland. All experienced the rise from the yeoman/artisan class to that of landed gentry, and all displayed in their adult lives the influence of that move from one socioeconomic class to another. This view of Jackson and his closest friends suggests a view of these men's motives; their values, attitudes, and beliefs were somewhat different than historians have pictured for us. These Jacksonians sought to preserve the world of their fathers while changing their place in the world. They looked back but moved ahead; they were self-interested but tempered always by a selfless ideal. |