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Jon Meacham - "American Lion"

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President Andrew Jackson engaged in numerous duels and once assaulted a man who tried to assassinate him, according to Newsweek magazine editor Jon Meacham. Nonetheless, Jackson was also the country’s first populist president. We talk with Meacham about his new book, “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House.”

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