Volume 22, Number 13 · August 7, 1975
Yankee Doodle Andy
By William A. Williams
Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian
by Michael Paul Rogin
Knopf, 373 pp., $13.95
Professor Rogin's first book, The Intellectuals and McCarthy: The Radical Specter, told us much about the liberal mind by reviewing its effort to discredit populism by tying it to McCarthy. In his new book he is writing one kind of psychohistory to reveal, through a lay analysis of Andrew Jackson, the causes, nature, and effects of the vast and ruthless removal of Indians from the eastern United States, and the character and dynamics of Jacksonian Democracy. It is a significant book, but it is not as exciting as you might expect; hence two warnings presented with the intention of encouraging you to push on through until you finish—for it is worth the struggle.
Review, 1668 words
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