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Backcountry boy.(books, arts & manners)(American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House)(Book review)
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, by Jon Meacham (Random House, 483 pp., $30)
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ANDREW JACKSON was the first president to come from beyond the mountains. He was also the first president of North British, Scotch-Irish stock. His predecessors in the presidential chair came from Virginia or Massachusetts: They were shaped by the blood and culture of the Tidewater Cavaliers or the New England Congregationalists, and their ancestors came mainly from the south of England. (Monroe's antecedents were, indeed, Scottish, but they were thought to have been Cavaliers, and at all events the family had been long settled in ...
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