Andrew Johnson

by Hans L. Trefousse
Category: "U.S. History - Political"
Pages:379
Year of Publication:1989
Date Added:12/14/1998
Date Read:11/17/1991
Notes:A definitive assessment of the career and presidency of Andrew Johnson. His papers and other sources reveal his fatal idealization of the agrarian utopia, his fierce advocacy of strict Constitutional constructionism, and his imprudent insistence upon the Republican party's adoption of his views on race. Trefousse demonstrates that Johnson, because of his upbringing, was out of step with the great changes emerging at the end of the Civil War. His stubborn attachment to his increasingly archaic views was responsible for his political and military success, but also for his impeachment. A brilliant, compassionate portrait of a dynamic era of social change and national healing, and of the tragic failure of an American leader.
My Rating: 6

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