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Book Review



A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy. By Donald B. Cole. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. xvi, 332 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-8071-29305.)

In a heroic age, Amos Kendall seemed hopelessly out of place. Gaunt, pale, and waferthin, a hypochondriac with prematurely gray hair, he appeared frail and beyond his years. Likewise, an aversion to public speaking and a moralizing, self-righteous tone made him ill suited to the raucous oratorical style of the Jacksonian era. Yet Kendall became one of the most celebrated—and vilified—men in America, a political innovator and a driving force in the creation of the Democratic party. . . .

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