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A whole lot of printer ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most important characters, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to accelerate on the lives of America's most significant men and women in the time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long neglected or never known. The United States of America has already established many presidents that Americans agree with the fact were either great or dreadful while some fall into a mediocre category of irrelevance. In many cases a countrywide consensus has been reached on men like Abraham Lincoln and James Buchanan. But the president with questionable legacy might be "Old Hickory", Andrew Jackson. In his life-time Jackson came to stand for what middle-class Americans viewed as the quintessential North american. Jackson acquired a moderate upbringing, served as a teenager during the North american Revolution, became a battle hero during the Warfare of 1812, and championed populism and the normal North american during his presidency. He also embodied courage and manliness, famously having a bullet from a duel in his body for decades until his loss of life. On the other hand, critics continue steadily to fee that Jackson's legacy is irreversibly stained by his stances on slavery and Native Americans. Jackson opposed the idea of secession but helped keep the antebellum slave system set up, but he's most notorious for his forcible removal of thousands of Native Americans, the best known being the Cherokees' "Path of Tears". If the Supreme Court docket ruled that the state of Georgia could not impose laws after the Cherokees, Jackson is popularly quoted (though apocryphally) as dismissing the decision: "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it."
