Andrew Johnson
(2011)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/JOHNSON,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Times Books/Henry Holt and Company, [2011]
©2011
©2011
DESCRIPTION
xviii, 166 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780805069488, 0805069488, 0805069488 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The tailor's apprentice -- Ascent -- Governor and Senator Johnson -- Disunion -- Military governor and vice president -- Mr. President -- The president obstructs -- Impeachment
A portrait of America's seventeenth president describes Andrew Johnson's failed efforts to bring about reconciliation following the Civil War, the antagonism of congressional leaders who sought his impeachment, and his legacy for the present