First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.
Saturday, September 16, 2017
POOR ANDREW JACKSON, PLAYING THE "HEROIC THE VICTIM"
J. M. Opal, Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation (New York: Oxford U. Press, 2017) (From the book jacket:."During the long war in the south and west from 1811 to 1818 he brushed aside legal restraints on holy genocide and mass retaliation, presenting himself as the only man who would protect white families from hostile empire, 'heathen' warriors, and rebellious slave. He became a towering hero to those who saw the United States as uniquely lawful and victimized.").