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  • Greil Marcus's writing on Jackson - or rather 'Jacksonism' - is some of his most astute commentary on pop and political economy.

    k-punk 2009

  • Bell promptly leveraged his new position to gain control over the Nashville newspapers and to establish a Democratic alternative to Jacksonism in Tennessee.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • Bell promptly leveraged his new position to gain control over the Nashville newspapers and to establish a Democratic alternative to Jacksonism in Tennessee.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • Still, while Emerson called the Democrats "this rank rabble party," he also declared that the party was "more magnetic than the Whig" and that "the Jacksonism of the country," with its rough vitality, could save American writing from its "hollow dilettantism."

    Judging the Age of Jackson: An Exchange Howe, Daniel 2009

  • Still, if the two conditions are met, I'd say the religion of Jacksonism will be thriving within 20 years or so.

    Archive 2005-06-01 Garry 2005

  • Thus the bolt was launched at the Missouri senator, who, from his prestige of Jacksonism, his robust patriotism, his indomitable will, and his great abilities, was regarded as the most formidable if not the only enemy standing in the way of meditated treason.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • He was removed from the presidency of St. John's by a board of democratic trustees because of his federal politics; and, years afterward, he gave his son his only lesson in politics at the end of a letter, addressed to him when at Kenyon College, in this laconic sentence: "My son, beware of the follies of Jacksonism."

    Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis John A. J. Creswell

  • Bell, who was governor some years after him, and beaten in 1829 by the first successful foray of Jacksonism, removed soon after to

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

  • Democratic party in its struggles in support of Jefferson and Madison; both ardent supporters of John Quincy Adams's election and administration, and adverse to Jacksonism in all its phases; and each has acted constantly and zealously with the Whig party through all its changing fortunes.

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

  • "Jacksonism of the West"; he rated it a wholesome, vivifying force in our national thought and life.

    The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Bliss Perry 1907

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