# Andrew Jackson, Southerner

Mark R. Cheathem discussed his biography, "Andrew Jackson, Southerner." History has often depicted Andrew Jackson as a frontiersman who struggled to overcome the obstacles of his backwoods upbringing and helped create a more democratic America. Cheathem's book casts him in a different light, as an elite Southern gentleman.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2015
- By: Library Of Congress
- Genres: History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689751/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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