The Long Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians written by
             Anthony Wallace is a wonderfully written novel that focuses on the
             relationship between the White Americans and the Native Americans during
             the 1830s. The novel emphasizes on the government policy that was imposed
             during 1830 to forcefully remove thousands of Indians especially the
             Cherokee and the Choctaw from the American east to west of the Mississippi
             River. Through this magnificent novel, the readers learn about the Native
             American history and their story of the trail of tears. Compared to his
             other research on the Native Americans, the author exclaims the epoch in
             this novel with a pessimistic approach. The author of the novel has told
             his point of views to the audience in a straightforward manner. Even though
             the author refers to certain renowned white historians who give short
             shrift to this history, he on certain points has exaggerated the
             peculiarity of his study. On the whole, the novel is balanced and presents
             in an explicit manner the influences that gave rise to a governmental
             policy that coordinated the banishment of Native people from the American
             In the novel, the author focuses on Andrew Jackson, who presumed the
             presidency during the time when it was challenged with a government asunder
             over the question of Indian relocation and who soon became one of its
             dominant vindicator. The novel also illustrates how the Indians responded
             to the entire movement by taking legal action. Towards the end, Anthony
             Wallace shows how this struggle is still going on till today. Wallace's
             work in the novel can be compared to Ronald N. Satz's captious study,
             American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era written in 1975 and Francis
             Paul Prucha's The Great Father: The United States and the American Ind...