Excerpt from The American Nation: A History, Vol. 15: Jacksonian Democracy, 1829-1837

The character of Andrew Jackson is so distinct and so aggressive that few writers upon the period can resist the temptation to group the events Of his administration around his personality. This temp tation Professor macdonald has resisted. His con ception of the period is that it witnessed the fruition Of national policies, nearly all of which would have come up and would have divided the nation had there been no Andrew Jackson. At the same time, he shows how that dominant personality determined when and how most Of the great questions should arise, and how Jackson hammered out a series of political principles which became the foundation of a new democratic party.

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