Part 1 - Scenes from the Storm Andrew Jackson - The Road to the Presidency A Drama. Part 2 - The Story of the Storm: Issues of History, Genre, and Truth in Scenes from the Storm

Mousinho, Gordon Allan

Abstract

‘Andrew Jackson, I am given to understand, was a patriot and a traitor. He was one of the greatest of generals, and wholly ignorant of the art of war. A writer brilliant, elegant, eloquent, and without being able to compose a correct sentence, or spell words of four syllables. The first of statesmen, he never devised, he never framed a measure. He was the most candid of men and was capable of the profoundest dissimulation. A most law-defying, law-obeying citizen. A stickler for discipline, he never hesitated to disobey his superior. A democratic aristocrat. An urbane savage. An atrocious saint.’
These words of James Parton, Jackson’s first biographer, echo down through history. Scenes from the Storm portrays these contradictions, up until he was inaugurated as the seventh President of the United States in 1829.
This is not a conventional biography. While following the accepted historical record it adds imagined scenes, exploring the ‘gaps’ in that record. It conjures the spirit of the Age of Jackson and of its main protagonist. His spirit, not each pound of flesh or each wrinkle on his face. And spirits are always ethereal, elusive − and not quite real.

Citation

Mousinho, G. A. (2023). Part 1 - Scenes from the Storm Andrew Jackson - The Road to the Presidency A Drama. Part 2 - The Story of the Storm: Issues of History, Genre, and Truth in Scenes from the Storm. (Thesis). Keele University

• Thesis Type: Thesis
• Deposit Date: Oct 12, 2023
• Additional Information: Embargo on access until 1 August 2026 - The thesis is due for publication, or the author is actively seeking to publish this material and the thesis includes information that was obtained under a promise of confidentiality andiIncludes information that was obtained under a promise of confidentiality.
• Award Date: 2023-10