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Article: A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy.(Book Review)

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A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy. By Donald B. Cole. Southern Biography Series. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xvi, 332. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-2930-5.)

Donald B. Cole has written a fascinating study of Amos Kendall. Kendall is often stereotyped as the cadaverous fourth auditor of the United States Treasury who wielded power behind the throne as a member of Andrew Jackson's so-called Kitchen Cabinet. Cole brings forth a much fuller picture of Kendall as "the classic American self-made man" (p. 4). A native of Massachusetts and graduate of Dartmouth College, Kendall moved to Kentucky in 1814 and spent almost ...

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