America's Book Club: Jon Meacham on Andrew Jackson

Описание: Jon Meacham on Andrew Jackson: "I don't believe that it's fair to put the full weight of the sins of the two original sins in American life, which is the treatment of indigenous peoples and American slavery, on one person. That is like taking down a statue of someone might be fine, might be justified. But to blame someone for the what I would call the sins of the nation lets the rest of us off the hook. And so I see Jackson as I try to see everybody I write about, as I try to see everyone as a complicated figure who has good days and bad days. He had sins and shortcomings. But in 1832, '33, he stood up against John C. Calhoun in South Carolina and said no to a movement toward disunion that would have cut us off and arguably have ended to give taken away 2 or 3 decades of building what Lincoln would call the mystic chords of memory."

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