The American Heritage History of the Making of the NationAmerican Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster, 1968 - United States - 416 pages |
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Page 188
... Jackson . Adams had a program ; Jackson had no more than his Jeffersonian belief in " a plain system , void of pomp , protecting all and granting favors to none . " But by 1828 Jackson had become a symbol of change . The popula- tion ...
... Jackson . Adams had a program ; Jackson had no more than his Jeffersonian belief in " a plain system , void of pomp , protecting all and granting favors to none . " But by 1828 Jackson had become a symbol of change . The popula- tion ...
Page 191
... Jackson's election . He remained the chief of a group of New York leaders called the Albany Regency , formidable in their Tammany - based monopoly of pa- tronage . Toward Jackson he is said to have had the " perfect bedside manner ...
... Jackson's election . He remained the chief of a group of New York leaders called the Albany Regency , formidable in their Tammany - based monopoly of pa- tronage . Toward Jackson he is said to have had the " perfect bedside manner ...
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Francis Russell. ern Whigs and anti - Jackson Democrats chose Hugh Lawson White , a former Democrat from Tennessee who disliked Jackson's policies and disliked Jackson's polit- ical heir , Van Buren , even more . As the last months of ...
Francis Russell. ern Whigs and anti - Jackson Democrats chose Hugh Lawson White , a former Democrat from Tennessee who disliked Jackson's policies and disliked Jackson's polit- ical heir , Van Buren , even more . As the last months of ...
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