The Passions of Andrew Jackson. And...

The Passions of Andrew Jackson. Andrew Burstein. of recent origin York: Knopf, 2002. 292 pp $2500

"Our seventh president, Professor Burstein writes, is common of those figures in the pantheon of larger-than-life Americans past whose real personality has all yet vanished'. He has become 'emotionally without contents in the historic memory of twenty-first hundred Americans'. Burstein's aim is to rediscover Jackson's 'real personality' and make him intelligible to new readers. He sets abroad to find what Jackson's biographers have missed--'documents that were overtoped events oversimplified, ...