Old Hickory’s Victory
The difficult birth of Jacksonian democracy.
Vincent J. Cannato
March 15, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 25
The Birth of Modern Politics
Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828
by Lynn Hudson Parsons
Oxford, 272 pp., $24.95
Americans today don’t have a very high opinion of politics. We like the idea of democracy, it is just politics that we are not so crazy about. Every campaign year brings more rending of garments in the media about the rise of “negative campaigning” and serious concerns over the “tone” of our politics. Bipartisanship is now viewed as the logical end of democracy.
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