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New York. 1975. May 1975. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0394482042. 373 pages. hardcover. Cover: Asher B. Durand-'Andrew Jackson' & Albrecht Durer-'King Death on Horseback'. keywords: American Indian America History. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In a provocative psychological study, Michael Paul Rogin reveals the dark interior of Jackson's life and career-his complex, deep-seated hostility toward the American Indians and his central responsibility for their destruction. Overcoming severe early difficulties-a speech impediment similar to that of Melville's Billy Budd, prolonged childhood illness, the loss of both parents-Jackson rose to become a successful lawyer, politician, land speculator, and slave owner on the Tennessee frontier. The ‘architect of his own fortunes, ' a self-made man subservient to no one, he embodied the triumphant aspects of the popular mythology of the post-Revolutionary era, when the patriarchal order in politics and society was crumbling, freeing men to make their own ways, alone and unfettered. Yet, the psychic cost of liberation was extremely high: ‘it intensified loneliness, vengeful disappointment, and separation anxiety. ' Thus, Jackson, in freeing himself from his personal burdens and satisfying a compelling, fundamental need for authority, constructed for himself and his contemporaries a new paternal order to both supplant and honor the Founding Fathers' ambiguous legacy of independence, virtue, and opportunity. Its first premise was the removal of the Indian from his tribal lands in the southeastern United States. Rogin argues that Jacksonian Democracy-emphasizing laissez-faire capitalism, liberal egalitarianism, governmental reform, and westward expansion and symbolized by Jackson's war with the Bank of the United States-emerged from this anxious and deadly background to dominate American politics for a generation before the Civil War. inventory #22060.
Michael Rogin's "Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian" (1975) is an amalgamation of biography, history, and psychohistory. As biography, the book discusses the young Andrew Jackson, the trauma he underwent by being a posthumous child, and the death of his mother on the American frontier when he was fourteen. The book then explores Jackson's violent early manhood and his following career as a successful land speculator and local polititican. The book proceeds to examine Jackson's role in the War of 1812 and, most importantly in the Creek and Seminole Indian Wars. It follows this discussion with a treatment of Indian affairs during Jackson's Presidency as well as with a broader, though shorter discussion, of the nature of Jacksonian democracy and of Jackson's destruction of the Second Bank of the United States.
There is some good information and thought in the book. When the book focuses on telling the story of Jackson and his activities, it is good reading and, in the main, does not present an appealing picture of the United States's or Jackson's treatment of the Southeast Indians. Jackson's Indian Wars and subsequent removal policy come in for strong criticism. Rogin has interesting things to say about the conflicted character of American attitudes to the Indians and how these attitudes were both reflected and created by Jackson. It is also interesting to approach Jacksonian democracy from the perspective of Indian affairs. Rogovin's book was among the first to focus on Jackson's Indian policy in an attempt to understand Jacksonian America. Rogovin's judgments both on Jackson and more broadly, on the growth of democracy and industrialization in the United States, seem to me overly harsh.
The book is seriously marred by its attempts at psychohistory. There is a lot of second and third hand reliance on works by Freud, Erickson, Melanie Klien and other founders of psychoanalysis and a lengthy, unconvincing, attempt to apply Rogin's understanding of psychoanalysis to Jackson and to the American experience. It didn't work for me, to say the least. The book's overreliance on questionable psychohistory does lead me to be skeptical about much of the argument and conclusion of the book. The book is good at relating the literature of the day to Jacksonian America with some insightful comments about the work of Herman Melville. (Rogovin has also written a book about Melville).
There is something here worth knowing and saying about Jackson. Our Indian policy was indeed tragic and exacted a great human toll. The book though doesn't appreciate the difficult pressures in foreign and domestic affairs facing a young America. It is overly angry with the United States and too dependent on questionable psychologizing. The book shouldn't be anybody's sole source of information about Jacksonian America or Indian policy.
