Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy

Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy
ISBN-10
1416547509
ISBN-13
9781416547501
Category
History
Pages
447
Language
English
Published
2010-06-15
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Author
David O. Stewart

Description

A revisionist account of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson identifies specific incendiary behaviors on the part of the seventeenth president that the author believes failed to heal post-Civil War America.

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