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Americans first voted for a President whose campaign touted him as a rugged, stubborn, hot-tempered war hero, a man of the people, a hundred and eighty-four years ago. There is no older or more hackneyed gambit in American politics, no maneuver less maverick. The Erie Canal is younger.
— Jill Lepore in the New Yorker, reviewing Presidential campaign biographies since Andrew Jackson
