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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.
Speaker Biography: Mark R. Cheathem is an associate professor of history at Cumberland University and the author of "Old Hickory???s Nephew: The Political and Private Struggles of Andrew Jackson Donelson."
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