America's first "popular" President, a young Andrew Jackson is dramatized at the moment he defends his and his wife's honor in a duel which results in a life-long untreatable wound. Friends and colleagues cannot allay his outrage and his need for "satisfaction." Jackson sees himself as a man of the people and his actions speak to the frontier sensibilities of an expanding America.
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Each of these short plays ... seizes the moment and renders it in complete dramatic opposition and resolution. -- J.H. Crouch, Professor Emeritus of the University of Colorado and Founder of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival
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Lorraine Ash of Allendale, NJ is the Features Editor of The Daily Record, in Morristown, for which she also writes an award winning (Rose and Scroll) column Woman to Woman. Over her fifteen years as a journalist, Ash has won more than a dozen awards in news, feature, and public service writing on both state and national levels. A bachelor's degree from Drew University and a masters degree from Fordham University accredit her formidable research skills which are particularly suited to the demands of The History Project. While admitting that her primary creative writing interest is fiction, she has found the dramatic form demanding and rewarding, especially in working with the presidents. Ash won her wings with Tyler, continued onward by going backward (in time) to Monroe and she is currently at work on Jackson. She has traveled extensively, from Bangkok to Madrid, from Mexico City to Maui.
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The Frontier President,
By Ellen "StitchEllen" (Upstate NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Jackson : Character in Time : The US Presidents (Paperback)
For one whose hazy memory of Jackson from a mandatory American history college course is limited to the wild party that followed his inauguration, Lorraine Ash's one-act play serves to introduce me to the frontiersman who would be inaugurated as the seventh president 23 years later. The setting and the time frame is one day at the Jacksons' log home, The Hermitage, that culminates in his victory of a duel precipitated by his opponent's spreading of gossip related to Jackson's marriage to his beloved wife Rachel. Through dialogue and physical description, Ash paints a word picture of the man as an opportunist, as a man proud of his ability to speak with his fists and his gun rather than with words, as a man who stoically endured and recovered from a series of illnesses and injuries, as the first man of the common people and the Democratic party to be elected president. Jackson's voluble denunciation of American Indians and the British gives present day readers a vivid impression of popular sentiments common among the "new" Americans of the early 1800s. Ash follows the script with a section that summarizes headlines for the period of Jackson's two terms of office and another section that summarizes his personal history. These two sections greatly enhance the value of the script for the student and for the casual reader; they pack a wealth of history in a few pages. Pauline Ellen Lee, EdD
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