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.").