Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes (review)

Yet, his analysis, which is supposed to cover the entire nation from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, sometimes relies on evidence that consists of single quotations from travel accounts. Likewise, his argument occasionally attenuates and reiaes dynamic processes, obscuring temporal and regional differences and compressing ouid class and gender ideologies into axed categories—such as his discussion of the “particular concerns and anxieties of the nineteenth-century middle class” (271). But even if the book is more suggestive than deanitive at times, Sandoval-Strausz provides an unusually thoughtful and provocative perspective on an important American institution.