From Revivals to Removal – Jeremiah Evarts, the Cherokee Nation, and the Search…

From Revivals to RemovalJeremiah Evarts, the Cherokee Nation, and the Search for the Soul of America\nAuthor(s): John A. Andrew\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Georgia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Georgia Press\nISBN-13: 9780820331218, 978-0820331218\nSynopsis\nBetween the end of the Revolutionary War in 1781 and Andrew Jackson's retirement from the presidency in 1837, a generation of Americans acted out a great debate over the nature of the national character and the future political, economic, and religious course of the country.\n\nJeremiah Evarts [tel] and many others saw the debate as a battle over the soul of America. Alarmed and disturbed by the brashness of Jacksonian democracy, they feared that the still-young ideal of a stable, cohesive, deeply principled republic was under attack by the forces of individualism, liberal capitalism, expansionism, and a zealous blend of virtue and religiosity.\n\nA missionary, reformer, and activist, Jeremiah Evar.