andrew jackson
I've been reading Daniel Walker Howe's superb What Hath God Wrought. Among its many strong points, it's much-more clear-eyed about Andrew Jackson than Sean Wilentz's similar history, and I've been.
I heartily endorse this proposal [slide 4] to redesign American currency, if only because replacing Andrew Jackson with Duke Ellington on the $20 would, in and of itself, justify the.
Loomis begins a series on financial catastrophes in US history with a look at the 1837 Panic, which among other things underscores the avant la lettre wingnuttery of Andrew Jackson. Obviously the story of the Second Bank is complicated, but the degree to which Jackson...