| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy. By Robert M. Owens. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xxx, 311 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3842-8.)
Robert M. Owens has written what he has dubbed a cultural biography of William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States. Owens argues convincingly that it was during Harrison's period of association with Indiana Territory, roughly the first decade of the nineteenth century, that Harrison had his greatest "impact on American history" (p. xix). The author expends little space on Harrison in national politics or his role in the War of 1812, while inferring that his land cession treaties with the Indians helped bring on that conflict.	1
To explain Harrison's career, Owens uses Harrison's world view—formed by his generation's "almost fanatical reverence" for "the Revolutionary generation" (p. xvii)—and the colonial Virginia background of his father, Benjamin Harrison. Anglophobia stemming from the Revolution permeated everything American for thirty years after the conclusion of the war for independence, the second, third, and fourth decades of William Henry's life. "Like most Americans, he saw British intrigue at the heart of nearly any trouble the United States faced" (p. 62). His world view also stemmed from his army experience, particularly what he learned about Indian warfare and negotiations from Gen. Anthony Wayne.	. . .

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