Andrew Jackson And The Search For Vindication Summary

Andrew Jackson: and the Search for Vindication by James C. Curtis, was a very informative biography. Curtis did great work by adding research over Andrew Jackson’s life, and including some of his unpublished articles that were about the American General. The author wanted to capture a more “sensitive” side of Andrew Jackson instead of what was known about him being a victorious and confident American General who ruled the world into a glorious beginning. Curtis wanted readers to see early on about Andrew Jackson’s childhood life, and how it affected him by motivating him as an adult. This book focuses primarily on Andrew Jackson’s “formative” years, rather than his career as general. Curtis had a very convincing argument on how Jackson found his “vindication” and how he beat the odds as a young teenager by being motivated to seek power, that he would someday be a great man. Curtis made it clear that that readers would focus on Jackson’s personal life rather than his life as general or lawyer. He did so by …show more content…
Curtis gave important evidence to support his book by telling about Jackson’s back country survival and early childhood and how that molded him into the man he was. Also by stating that Jackson’s short temper helped him get things done, and how Jackson had anxieties about death. Curtis also did a tremendous job at explaining Jackson’s personal side by emphasizing how Jackson was a “country boy” and how he wanted to make things simple for average American to understand, by stating that people can relate to “down to earth leaders”. No other book has shown this side of Andre Jackson. This is a great piece showing how Jackson’s struggles later helped him become a leader in America, and how he built our foundation for our country. Readers now have incite on Andre Jackson’s sensitive side that is more humanized which one can relate