The Democratic Party is wrestling with Jackson's support ... Jackson's "passion and lack of self-control" in both 1824 and 1828, "making it central to the argument that he would devastate the ...

In1824 there was a realignment after a controversial election gave John Quincy Adams the presidency. For one, Adams led a more centrist wing of the Democratic Republicans which had absorbed most of ...

Karl Rove contends that the president ‘presided over the Tariff of Abominations.’ This requires some clarification.