This week on q a, Mark Cheathem on his biography of Andrew Jackson. He talks about the comparisons made between president jackson and President Trump. Brian Mark Cheathem, author of Andrew Jackson, southerner, and a lot of other books about Andrew Jackson and the south, when you see this picture on the screen, what comes to mind . Mark all the comparisons between trump and jackson and how wrong they are, frankly. I dont see a lot of similarities in terms of depth between donald trump and Andrew Jackson. Brian really . Not a mark really. Brian not a thing . Mark im not saying there arent some similarities. They both have great hair, of course. But i think a lot of the comparisons try to push trump into a box with jackson and its not a viable comparison, in my opinion. Brian thats a picture of i mean, a painting in the oval office that he put up. Why do you think he did that . Mark steve bannon convinced him to do it, i think. I dont think trump had any clue as to who jackson was, probab
This week on q a, Mark Cheathem on his biography of Andrew Jackson. He talks about the comparisons made between president jackson and President Trump. Brian Mark Cheathem, author of Andrew Jackson, southerner, and a lot of other books about Andrew Jackson and the south, when you see this picture on the screen, what comes to mind . Mark all the comparisons between trump and jackson and how wrong they are, frankly. I dont see a lot of similarities in terms of depth between donald trump and Andrew Jackson. Brian really . Not a mark really. Brian not a thing . Mark im not saying there arent some similarities. They both have great hair, of course. But i think a lot of the comparisons try to push trump into a box with jackson and its not a viable comparison, in my opinion. Brian thats a picture of i mean, a painting in the oval office that he put up. Why do you think he did that . Mark steve bannon convinced him to do it, i think. I dont think trump had any clue as to who jackson was, probab
This week on q a, Mark Cheathem on his biography of Andrew Jackson. He talks about the comparisons made between president jackson and President Trump. Brian Mark Cheathem, author of Andrew Jackson, southerner, and a lot of other books about Andrew Jackson and the south, when you see this picture on the screen, what comes to mind . Mark all the comparisons between trump and jackson and how wrong they are, frankly. I dont see a lot of similarities in terms of depth between donald trump and Andrew Jackson. Brian really . Not a mark really. Brian not a thing . Mark im not saying there arent some similarities. They both have great hair, of course. But i think a lot of the comparisons try to push trump into a box with jackson and its not a viable comparison, in my opinion. Brian thats a picture of i mean, a painting in the oval office that he put up. Why do you think he did that . Mark steve bannon convinced him to do it, i think. I dont think trump had any clue as to who jackson was, probab
And he was running around saying he needed to be replaced. Madison started writing letters to the baptists, as they should have. They recognized that he was the one that would be best for office. One of the most important relationships to the founding was madisons relationship with jefferson. It was a complex relationship and a political relationship and piggy backing on your comment, when jefferson needed something in congress he went to madison. He asked him to do a, b and c. Could you talk about this relationship between jefferson and madison . I think its one of the greatest stories of all american history. They first met when madison went to wark on the council and then jefferson became governor. From that time this wonderful friendship developed. They also lived in the same boarding house in connection with kitty. You could just imagine their conversations in that boarding house. I think that each of them was probably the brightest person that the other had ever known or would ev
Let me also again acknowledge gay and david, molly, donna marie and the entire team at the society for the four arts for hosting this magnificent five part series. Thank you. And most importantly, id like to thank dr. Cheney for coming here and sharing her views on president and mrs. Madison. Thank you. Okay. Well revisit a couple the issues that discussed. Lets jump right into your writing style. Tell us a little bit about how you pick your topics and how you approach the research process. Well, during the writing of the book madison, i was entranced with the notion as gay pointed out that for the first 36 years of the republic, the virginians were in charge for 32. And i was interested not only in how this came about and thats a good story, but in the interaction between them and the personal interactions. I wont give away too much. But there are some surprises there. Yeah. And how i write. You know, i was teacher of freshman english for quite a while. I was getting my phd. And i jus