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Drawing on dozens of new sources, celebrated historical biographer Hendrik Booraem illuminates the adventurous, fighting life of the father of the Democratic party. Beginning with the dramatic story of the Jackson-Crawford clan's immigration from Ireland and culminating with Jackson's entrance into the legal world, Young Hickory brings Andrew Jackson intoā¦
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Instead of depicting Jackson as a western frontiersmanāan interpretation that is no longer tenable given existing scholarshipāBooraem situates Jackson within the geographical context of the Carolinas, where he was born and raised. He also destroys many of the myths about Jacksonās childhood, some of which continue to circulate among serious historians even today. No one has done a better job of tracing Jacksonās roots.
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