terary quality is above the average and it appraises
Jackson and his times in an unimpeachable spirit of fairness. Within
very limited space, William G. Brown's _Andrew Jackson_ (1900) tells
the story of Jackson admirably; and a good biography, marred only by a
lack of sympathy and by occasional inaccuracy in details, is William
G. Sumner's _Andrew Jackson_ (rev. ed., 1899). Of older biographies,
the most important is James Parton's _Life of Andrew Jackson_, 3 vols.
(1861). This work is sketchy, full of irrelevant or unimportant
matter, and uncritical; but for a half-century it was the repository
from which historians and biographers chiefly drew in dealing with
Jackson's epoch. John H. Eaton's _Life of Andrew Jackson_ (1842)
describes Jackson's earlier career, mainly on the military side; but
it never rises above the level of a campaign document.

Among biographies of Jackson's contemporaries may be mentioned George
T. Curtis, _Life of Daniel Webster_, 2 vols. (1870); Henry C. Lodge,
_Daniel Webster_ (1883); John B. McMaster, _Daniel Webster_ (1902);
Frederic A. Ogg, _Daniel Webster_ (1914); Carl Schurz, _Henry Clay_, 2
vols. (1887); Gaillard Hunt, _John C. Calhoun_ (1908); William M.
Meigs, _The Life of John Caldwell Calhoun_, 2 vols. (1917); John T.
Morse, _John Quincy Adams_ (1882); Edward M. Shepard, _Martin Van
Buren_ (1888); Theodore Roosevelt, _Thomas Hart Benton_ (1888); and
Theodore D. Jervey, _Robert Y. Hayne and His Times_ (1909).

On many topics the reader will do well to go to monographs or other
special works. Thus Jackson's policy of removals from public office is
presented with good perspective in Carl R. Fish, _The Civil Service
and the Patronage_ (Harvard Historical Studies, xi, 1905). The history
of the bank controversy is best told in Ralph C. H. Catterall, _The
Second Bank of the United States_ (1903); and interesting chapters in
the country's financial history are presented in Edward G. Bourne,
_History of the Surplus Revenue of 1837_ (1885), and David Kinley,
_The History, Organization, and Influence of the Independent Treasury
of the United States_ (1893). On the tariff one should consult Frank
W. Taussig, _Tariff History of the United States_ (6th ed., 1914) and
Edward Stanwood, _American Tariff Controversies_, 2 vols. (1903).
Similarly illuminating studies of nullification are David F. Houston,
_Critical Study of Nullification in South Carolina_ (Harvard
Historical Studies, in, 1896) and Ulri