From Old Hickory to Sly Fox

As Marvin Meyers has written, Old Hero and Sly Fox should be adversaries in a morality fable.' That, in reality, Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren were not foes, but personal and political allies, is a fascinating and much-noted paradox. Considerable attention has been devoted to the contrasting but complementary roles of these two men in the creation of the Democratic partyJackson's as its heroic progenitor, Van Buren's as its masterful organization builder.2 We do not understand fully, however, what

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• Presidential Mandates in the Nineteenth Century

  Open Access•Richard J Ellis, Stephen Kirk•Studies in American Political…•1995

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