"A Kind Providence" and "The Right to Self Preservation": How Andrew Jackson, Emersonian Whiggery, and Frontier Calvinism Shaped the Course of American Political Culture

Andrew Jackson has inspired numerous biographies and works of historical scholarship, but his religious views have attracted very little attention. Jackson may have been a giant on the political landscape, but he was also a human being, an ordinary American who experienced the same difficulties and...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruckel, Ryan
Other Authors: Lance Porter
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2006
Subjects:
Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-07132006-150446/