Van Buren's View of Power in New York

Martin Van Buren is the son of a tavern keeper who rents property from one of these Dutch patrons. He does what you could do back then, which is just read a bunch of law books. It doesn't go to school or nothing, just like Lincoln actually. And what he does is he realizes power can be had in New York for people like me,. People who are not of the massive landed families. They're renters and they've got to draw pints for people to stay above water.