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Fathers and children: Andrew Jackson and the subjugation of the American Indian Hardcover – January 1, 1975

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Rogin shows us a Jackson who saw the Indians as a menace to the new nation and its citizens. This volatile synthesis of liberal egalitarianism and an assault on the American Indians is the source of continuing interest in the sobering and important book.


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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf : distributed by Random House; First Edition (January 1, 1975)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 373 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0394482042
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0394482040
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.98 pounds
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Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2009
Mike Rogin was a professor of mine at UC Berkeley in the early 1970's. One of his interests was Jacksonian Democracy. Mike, like many of the professors in Political Science and Philosophy at UC during that time, had a core understanding of psychoanalytic theory which brought additional, and even immense understanding and insight into very complex dilemmas which would normally be simply passed over. Rogin's interests were very much concerned with betrayal and one could extend this to the violation of incest taboos when the parent (someone like Jackson for example) sends his sons out to destroy the Native people; and for certain, rape was well tolerated as a means of terror and subjugation.

This is a marvelous book. A person could be initially turned off to it because of the approach, but it is Rogin's approach that is the key here as the questions he provokes are in many ways more important in leading to major and significant insight than the actual content of what is written in the book.

Surely, if a person is interested in Jackson, this is a seminal text insofar as gaining understanding of not only that period in US history, but how this perverse paternalistic feature seemingly inherent in our culture evolved, established itself, and then got away with extraordinary crimes that persisted in the inhumane treatment of others, (and even to this day).
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Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2016
A crucial read for those interested in US and Native Americans. I am not particularly partial to the use of psychoanalysis
the analysis of history, leaders. It must have been "fashionable" in histories of the 70's. That should be for those
with special personality problems and for them only. (Take any leader etc. and one can run similar psychoanalyses
and get nowhere fast.) Perhaps, just perhaps, it might have been applicable to Andrew Jackson but it would be more
productive to use time and space for an analysis of cultures, frontier approaches etc.

The book is GREAT. It is a MUST READ (despite the above reservations).
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Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2014
Want to know the real Andrew Jackson and not the so-called "hero" of the history books? Well, here he is--a president hell-bent on pushing the Native populations from their lands, with the ultimate goal of destroying them altogether. He broke every treaty he signed with them.
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