The Age of Jackson

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T^his Pulitzer Prize winner received outstanding praise from the critics: ALLAN NEVINS - "It is a remarkable piece of analytical history, full of vitality, rich in insights and new facts, and casting a broad shaft of illumination over one of the most interesting periods of our national life." BERNARD DE VOTO - "He writes as though history could be literature; he endows his men and their times with life; he has a novelist's skill at characterization and his style is charged with irony and epigram." MARQUIS JAMES - "Mr. Schlesinger has done more than give us the best account there is of the Jackson era. He has set a landmark in American historical literature. The book has depth, clarity and ease-and its people live." ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR. was born ín Columbus, Ohio, and grew up in an academic family which migrated from the Ohio State University to the University of Iowa and finally to Harvard. He graduated from Harvard summa cumiaudem 1938. Hishonors thesis was published under... Tovább

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T^his Pulitzer Prize winner received outstanding praise from the critics: ALLAN NEVINS - "It is a remarkable piece of analytical history, full of vitality, rich in insights and new facts, and casting a broad shaft of illumination over one of the most interesting periods of our national life." BERNARD DE VOTO - "He writes as though history could be literature; he endows his men and their times with life; he has a novelist's skill at characterization and his style is charged with irony and epigram." MARQUIS JAMES - "Mr. Schlesinger has done more than give us the best account there is of the Jackson era. He has set a landmark in American historical literature. The book has depth, clarity and ease-and its people live." ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR. was born ín Columbus, Ohio, and grew up in an academic family which migrated from the Ohio State University to the University of Iowa and finally to Harvard. He graduated from Harvard summa cumiaudem 1938. Hishonors thesis was published under the title Or estes A. Brownson} A Pilgrim's Progress. Subsequently, while a Junior Fellow at Harvard, he wrote his book on Jacksonian democracy, which was published by Little, Brown. During the war he served in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, London and Paris. Author, editor, Harvard University professor, and histórián of the New Deal, Mr. Schlesinger has been appointed by President Kennedy as a full-time special assistant. Vissza