Of Edward Pessen's Jacksonian Americ Society, Personality, And Politics

Edward Pessen, the author of the book, Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics talks about “the Jacksonian era” or “Common Man” which begin in 1820s, where the supporters of Jackson began to form the modern Democratic Party in the America for both Americans and foreign people. “For not only did Americans themselves observe their fellow countrymen but an army of European, mainly English, visitors swarmed over this country during the Jacksonian era.” (Pessen 2). Andrew Jackson, who was the seventh president of the United States, believed that Washington ignored people’s aspiration in 1824. Starting of the chapter two, Pessen describes different writers’ perspective towards Andrew Jackson. For example: some people saw him as a hero, while others saw him as a villain. Some saw him as a people’s warrior, while others saw him as a president who ruined the political system and didn’t care about people’s wishes. Lastly, many think that he crippled the nation; however, all of the followings are true. It was the starting point for America to become a civilized nation. In the chapter two it says, “Contemporary comments about Americans fall into four not always distinct categories: emotional
As a result of Jackson, if he didn’t step up and thought of changing this, we might be still living in miserable lifestyle. Also, we would still be continuing the European culture and its traits. Reading the book, Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics by Edward Pessen, one can tell that the change was done for a good cause. Even though many suffered and were treated badly, the change like this was meant to civilize the people of the nation. Looking at other countries today, some of their people are not even trained to live as human beings. The terrorist attacks happening and it causing people to join the terrorist groups is very awful. However, Jackson did a wonderful job on changing the