I have been reading H.W. Brand's new biography of Andrew Jackson. He begins with a reluctant and grim John Quincy Adams about to leave the White House as Jackson comes to power. The younger Adams remembers his father's desire to "keep power out of the hands of the unlettered and incompetent."
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