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James Parton (1) (1822–1891)

Auteur van The Life of Horace Greeley

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The Life of Horace Greeley (2005) 24 exemplaren
The Life and Times of Aaron Burr (1858) 17 exemplaren
Life of Andrew Jackson (1861) 14 exemplaren
General Butler in New Orleans (1864) 13 exemplaren
The Presidency of Andrew Jackson (1967) 11 exemplaren
Life Of Andrew Jackson V1 (2006) 9 exemplaren
Life Of Andrew Jackson V2 (2006) 9 exemplaren
Daughters of Genius (1886) 8 exemplaren
General Jackson (1893) 5 exemplaren

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Still one of the best and most complete and balanced biographies of Jackson. Not a typical romanticized 19th century bio-- from Parton pp vii,viii-“Andrew Jackson, I am given to understand, was a patriot and a traitor. He was one of the greatest of generals, and wholly ignorant of the art of war. A writer brilliant elegant, eloquent, without being able to
compose a correct sentence, or spell words of four syllables.The first of statesmen, he never devised, he never framed a measure. He was the most candid of men, and was capable of the profoundest dissimulation. A most law-defying, law-obeying citizen. A stickler for
discipline, he never hesitated to disobey his superior. A democratic
autocrat. An urbane savage. An atrocious saint.” So difficult is it to attain information respecting a man whom two thirds of his fellow citizens deified, and the other third vilified, for space of twelve years or more
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