| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Donald B. Cole. A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy. (Southern Biography Series.) Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 332. $59.95.
A key figure in the short-lived but path-breaking Second American Party System, Amos Kendall has long lacked a published biography. Donald B. Cole addresses this need in an account that is thorough, fair-minded, and illuminating. As befits the man who was celebrated in his own lifetime as the most elusive member of President Andrew Jackson's entourage, however, key aspects of Cole's subject remain obscure.	1
Born in 1789, the thin, sickly son of a moderate Massachusetts farmer, Kendall worked his way through Dartmouth College and headed for Kentucky, where he found employment as a tutor in the home of Henry Clay. Always looking for something better, Kendall eventually became a partisan editor and political organizer. Disappointed and uncomfortable with his original patron, Kendall gradually moved away from Clay, first into the ranks of Kentucky's Relief and New Court parties, and then into the camp of presidential candidate Jackson.	. . .

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