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Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the Presidency DVD
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the Presidency
cartoon depicting Jackson as a donkeyThis biography of America's seventh president explores whether Americans should celebrate Jackson or apologize for him. Discover that Jackson fought in the Revolutionary War when he was 13 years old and that he used the skills learned in battle to kill a man over a gambling debt; that Jackson led the American army to the most surprising victory in its history in the Battle of New Orleans, but that he also launched an unauthorized invasion of Florida; that Jackson was the first great champion of the common white man and owned more than a hundred black Americans; that Jackson dramatically expanded the United States and did so by brutally wresting vast regions of the south from Native Americans; that Jackson, in one of the boldest political strokes in history, founded the Democratic Party, yet was viewed by his enemies as an American Napoleon. Martin Sheen narrates.
Air Date
Wednesday, 1/2/08 from 9-11 p.m. ET
Website
pbs.org/previews/andrewjackson/
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