Turner's _Rise of the New West_ (1906) and William MacDonald's
_Jacksonian Democracy_ (1906). These are volumes XIV and XV in _The
American Nation_, edited by Albert B. Hart.
Biographies are numerous and in a number of instances excellent. Of
lives of Jackson, upwards of a dozen have been published. The most
recent and in every respect the best is John S. Bassett's _Life of
Andrew Jackson_, 2 vols. (1911). This work is based throughout on the
sources; its literary quality is above the average and it appraises
Jackson and his times in an unimpeachable spirit of fairness. Within
very limited space, William G. Brown's _Andrew Jackson_ (1900) tells
the story of Jackson admirably; and a good biography, marred only by a
lack of sympathy and by occasional inaccuracy in details, is William
G. Sumner's _Andrew Jackson_ (rev. ed., 1899). Of older biographies,
the most important is James Parton's _Life of Andrew Jackson_, 3 vols.
(1861). This work is sketchy, full of irrelevant or unimportant
matter, and uncritical; but for a half-century it was the repository
from which historians and biographers chiefly drew in dealing with
Jackson's epoch.
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