A maverick in the White House

Published August 8, 2012 4:00am ET



Historical accuracy may not have been Alex Timbers’ goal when he wrote “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” but despite his anachronistic use of cell phones and microphones, Timbers provides a clear impression of our seventh president in this big, brassy, postmodern vision of the way things were when America was young.

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