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Jackson
by
Max Byrd
He became a legend at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. Before that he was a fiercely passionate senator who could barely finish a speech without becoming choked with rage. He was called coarse and illiterate. A slave owner, land speculator, and Indian fighter, he stole another man's wife, murdered men in duels, and ordered military executions. But Andrew J...more
Paperback, 432 pages
Published
February 2nd 1998
by Bantam
(first published 1997)
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I think I expected much more from this book than I should have, somehow. With as rich a subject as Andrew Jackson, it should be almost easy to write something captivating and imaginative and full of fire and movement. Byrd...did not, really. He gets in his own way a lot, with odd and entirely unnecessarily obscure word choices (he spends the better part of a chapter having a mild affair with variances on the word "cthonic"), as well as repetitive phrasing--not to the point of being ...more
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Mildly entertaining. Byrd, unfortunately, passes on some of the myths about Jackson that have been debunked for decades, such as the one about him reading the Declaration aloud to the residents of the Waxhaws.
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This book was not that good and I found the writing to be distracting. This guy is no Gore Viodal when it comes to histrical fiction.
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May Byrd is the author of a number of scholarly books on 18th century English literature, including Visits to Bedlam and London Transformed. Winner of the Shamus Award for best paperback private detective novel, his oeuvre of detective novels include the Book-of-the-Month Club selection Target of Opportunity. Byrd is also the author of four historical novels: Grant: A Novel, Jefferson: A Novel, Ja...more
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“She turned quickly to face him, and with one part of his mind he thought, They call it falling in love, admiring as always the wisdom of the language. Not stumbling in love, not walking, striding, jumping, bouncing, crawling in love. You fall in love, straight forward like a chopped tree, straight down like a rock from a cliff: gravity, earth, concussion.”
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