J M Opal

J. M. Opal is Associate Professor of History at McGill University. He is the author of Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England . His new book, Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Southern Borderlands, and the Ordeal of American Democracy , centers on vengeance and on the man who built both his public and his private life around its pursuit.

J. M. Opal is Associate Professor of History at McGill University. He is the author of Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England . His new book, Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Southern Borderlands, and the Ordeal of American Democracy , centers on vengeance and on the man who built both his public and his private life around its pursuit. See less