| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Andrew Jackson & His Indian Wars. By Robert V. Remini. (New York: Penguin, 2001. xviii, 317 pp. Cloth, $26.95, ISBN 0-670-91025-2. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-14-200128-7.)
Robert V. Remini is one of the foremost scholars of Jacksonian America. For this reason, and because he says this is his last book about Andrew Jackson, this study deserves serious attention. It covers "an important and highly controversial subject." One that is "charged with prejudice and misunderstanding." Claiming he does not "excuse or exonerate" Jackson for his role in Indian removal, Remini says his purpose is "simply to explain what happened and why" (p. vii).	1
Jackson developed "fixed prejudices" about Indians as well as "hatred, mistrust, and fear" while growing up in the Carolinas. He came to believe that America's security required "removal, if not the elimination of the Indian from civilized society" (p. 15). As a frontiersman and later congressman and military officer, Jackson was eager to defeat the "triple-headed menace" (p. 23) plaguing frontier settlers—England, Spain, and their Indian allies. Jackson brought "superhuman" and "almost demonic" (p. 60) willpower to defeat his enemies. Following his victory in the Creek War and in his dealings with other tribes afterwards, he used threats, bribery, economic coercion, and falsehoods to acquire millions of acres of Indian land.	. . .

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