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Title: Stealing Andrew Jackson's Head
Author: Charles D. Rodenbough
Narrator: Andrew Parrella
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-05-13
Publisher: All Things That Matter Press, Inc.
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
In his obituary in 1899, the New York Times called Samual Worthington Dewey "one of the most picturesque characters in American history". For most of his life, Dewey was referred to in public as a sea captain, but his 92 years were much more eclectic. He collected knowledge and was attracted by persons who shared his acquisitive thirst for experience and learning. Based on the true-life experiences of Samuel W. Dewey, Stealing Andrew Jackson's Head is a fictionalized account of those events, as told by Dewey to eleven-year-old Jake Cooper.
Members Reviews:
The Sea Captain...
Charles Rodenbough in real life played at being a businessman, and succeeded pretty much wherever he turned, but history and learning ranked as his first love and this book, as well as the three others he has authored, spectacularly illustrate that point.
Reared in rural Stokes County, North Carolina, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, he left the Air Force at the age of 26 intending to work toward a doctorate in history and a career as a college professor. Life, and "responsibilities," intervened. He worked in real estate, insurance, headed a travel agency, and participated in various projects in Russia -- but as time flowed on he immersed himself in history, local, state and national, and tentatively at first and increasingly with more confidence began to write about it.
He broke free in 1994 with the publication of his first book, "Governor Alexander Martin: Biography of a North Carolina Revolutionary War Statesman." Since then he has researched, written and honed his craft full time.
You can read of his many projects on Google, on Amazon and elsewhere. Here let's now address the book at hand, Charles Rodenbough's latest novel: "Stealing Andrew Jackson's Head, based on the life of Captain Samuel W. Dewey."
Dewey, cousin of the Admiral, friend of the famous, became a sailor at 14, a ship captain at 15 and for the next 12 years traveled the world. By age 27, his restless mind sought new challenges. Dewey involved himself in canals and railroads, taught himself geology, and became a trader in stocks and land.
As a "mineralogist" he roamed, among other places, the Sauratown Mountains in Stokes County, North Carolina a few miles from Charles Rodenbough's future home. He unearthed in Virginia the largest diamond (up to that time) ever found in America. He wandered the world. He was, for want of a better phrase, a most interesting man.
Captain Samuel W. Dewey is also known to history as the man who cut off Andrew Jackson's head. To explain: when the ship USS Constitution was rebuilt in Boston in 1834, a wooden figure of President Jackson was carved and added to the ship's bow. Many New Englanders, including Dewey at that time, objected to Jackson's politics, and under cover of night, in a rain storm, Dewey rowed out to the ship and sawed off the statue's head.
Most men would have stopped there. Not Dewey. He decided to present the head to Jackson himself. The President was ill at the time so Dewey met with Vice President Martin Van Buren, who passed him on to Secretary of the Navy Mahlon Dickinson, who after some argument accepted the head.
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Title: Stealing Andrew Jackson's Head
Author: Charles D. Rodenbough
Narrator: Andrew Parrella
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-05-13
Publisher: All Things That Matter Press, Inc.
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
In his obituary in 1899, the New York Times called Samual Worthington Dewey "one of the most picturesque characters in American history". For most of his life, Dewey was referred to in public as a sea captain, but his 92 years were much more eclectic. He collected knowledge and was attracted by persons who shared his acquisitive thirst for experience and learning. Based on the true-life experiences of Samuel W. Dewey, Stealing Andrew Jackson's Head is a fictionalized account of those events, as told by Dewey to eleven-year-old Jake Cooper.
Members Reviews:
The Sea Captain...
Charles Rodenbough in real life played at being a businessman, and succeeded pretty much wherever he turned, but history and learning ranked as his first love and this book, as well as the three others he has authored, spectacularly illustrate that point.
Reared in rural Stokes County, North Carolina, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, he left the Air Force at the age of 26 intending to work toward a doctorate in history and a career as a college professor. Life, and "responsibilities," intervened. He worked in real estate, insurance, headed a travel agency, and participated in various projects in Russia -- but as time flowed on he immersed himself in history, local, state and national, and tentatively at first and increasingly with more confidence began to write about it.
He broke free in 1994 with the publication of his first book, "Governor Alexander Martin: Biography of a North Carolina Revolutionary War Statesman." Since then he has researched, written and honed his craft full time.
You can read of his many projects on Google, on Amazon and elsewhere. Here let's now address the book at hand, Charles Rodenbough's latest novel: "Stealing Andrew Jackson's Head, based on the life of Captain Samuel W. Dewey."
Dewey, cousin of the Admiral, friend of the famous, became a sailor at 14, a ship captain at 15 and for the next 12 years traveled the world. By age 27, his restless mind sought new challenges. Dewey involved himself in canals and railroads, taught himself geology, and became a trader in stocks and land.
As a "mineralogist" he roamed, among other places, the Sauratown Mountains in Stokes County, North Carolina a few miles from Charles Rodenbough's future home. He unearthed in Virginia the largest diamond (up to that time) ever found in America. He wandered the world. He was, for want of a better phrase, a most interesting man.
Captain Samuel W. Dewey is also known to history as the man who cut off Andrew Jackson's head. To explain: when the ship USS Constitution was rebuilt in Boston in 1834, a wooden figure of President Jackson was carved and added to the ship's bow. Many New Englanders, including Dewey at that time, objected to Jackson's politics, and under cover of night, in a rain storm, Dewey rowed out to the ship and sawed off the statue's head.
Most men would have stopped there. Not Dewey. He decided to present the head to Jackson himself. The President was ill at the time so Dewey met with Vice President Martin Van Buren, who passed him on to Secretary of the Navy Mahlon Dickinson, who after some argument accepted the head.