Gerald W. Johnson (1)Críticas

Written for 5th to 6th grade. Includes index and some B&W scracthboard illustrations by Fisher.

A history of the United States from the adoption of the Constitution to the brink of World War I, concentrating on outstanding events and great men.

A history of the United States (and a bit about Canada as well), from Columbus to the end of the American Revolution, and written for what we now call Middle Grade kiddos. For being written in the 1950's, it's honestly not too bad, although there are a few bits that are definitely dated. It's thorough without being dry, and that's an accomplishment in itself.

163. Woodrow Wilson The Unforgettable Figure Who Has Returned to Haunt Us, by Gerald W. Johnson (read 23 Nov 1944) When I read this book in November of 1944 I said it was a very good book, with excellent pictures, I also said to myself: "Sad, of course, as all about Wilson is."½

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829-1837). He was also military governor of Florida (1821), commander of the American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815), a founder of the modern Democratic Party, and the eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy. He was a polarizing figure who dominated American politics in the 1820s and 1830s. Nicknamed "Old Hickory" because he was renowned for his toughness, Jackson was the first President primarily associated with the frontier (although born in South Carolina, he based his career in Tennessee) Wikipedia Link Here

Gerald W. Johnson (1890-1980)
American Journalist and Author. (See article on Walter Beeker, 1981 graduate of Wake Forest, avocational intellectual, who has an interest in this author.) Link to Wake Forest article

Johnson was an editorialist for the Baltimore Sun. He graduated from Wake Forest in 1911 and wrote this "biography" around 1925-27. He "probed and prodded, with stylish and frequently vitriolic prose, the moribund consciousness of the South." Link Here

The desirable book imo is: Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. The Age of Jackson. (1945). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.

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