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“Also, Arthur Schlesinger’s Age of Jackson which barely mentions what happened to the Cherokee and other Indian tribes during Jackson’s reign. I suspect he didn’t mention it at all in the original edition, but stuck in two sentences in later editions so people couldn’t charge him with completely falsifying the record.”

That, and its barely readable and about as interesting as paint drying.


19 posted on 07/16/2012 2:32:23 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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And, on top of everything else, he totally gets the Jackson/BUS stuff wrong and subscribed to the “democracy foaming perilously near the crest” garbage.


23 posted on 07/16/2012 3:57:09 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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