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Fathers and children: Andrew Jackson and the subjugation of the American Indian Hardcover – January 1, 1975
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.
- Print length373 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherKnopf : distributed by Random House
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1975
- ISBN-100394482042
- ISBN-13978-0394482040
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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
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,638,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #9,005 in Presidents & Heads of State Biographies
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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).
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).
