Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian / Edition 1

by Michael Paul Rogin

Overview

Rogin shows us a Jackson who saw the Indians as a menace to the new nation and its citizens. This volatile synthesis of liberal egalitarianism and an assault on the American Indians is the source of continuing interest in the sobering and important book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887388866
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/30/1991
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	426
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; I: Whites; Revolutionary Fathers; 2: Andrew Jackson; 3: Nature, Property, and Title; II: Whites and Indians; 4: Children of Nature; 5: Violence and War: The Sublimation of the Death Instinct into Authority; 6: Primitive Accumulation and Paternal Authority; 7: Indian Removal; III: Jacksonian Democracy; 8: The Market Revolution and the Reconstruction of Paternal Authority; 9: The Mother Bank; 10: Manifest Destiny

Editorial Reviews

The most brilliant psychoanalytic study of an American president yet published… altogether extraordinary.” – Fawn M. Brodie

From the Publisher

A reprint of the Knopf edition of 1975 with a new introduction by Rogin. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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