![]() ![]() He migrated to Nashville, Tennessee, where he established himself as a lawyer, planter, politician and militia officer. ![]() Ill-treated by British officers and imprisoned near Charleston, Jackson was the only member of his immediate family to survive the conflict. But he underplays the consequences of his subject's darker qualities, especially the fact that, like Captain Ahab, Jackson was willing to destroy everything in order to exact revenge.īorn in 1767 along the border between North and South Carolina, Andrew Jackson experienced the American War of Independence as a brutal civil war. ![]() Jon Meacham, the editor of Newsweek and author of "Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship," discerns a similar democratic dignity in the seventh president of the United States. To them he shall "ascribe high qualities, though dark." For support in this endeavor, Melville appeals to the "great democratic God!" the deity "who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles who didst hurl him upon a war-horse who didst thunder him higher than a throne!" $30Įarly in "Moby-Dick," Melville announces his intention to celebrate the "democratic dignity" of ordinary men. ![]()
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