A fresh perspective on the president who officially ended the Reconstruction charts the career of this extremely well-educated chief executive across one of the most important eras in American history. 25,000 first printing.[...]
Politically shrewd but fatally unable to adapt to new political realities, Andrew Johnson presided, disastrously, over the tumultuous first years of Reconstruction. In this provocative account, Hans Trefousse gives us "a brilliant, compassionate portrait of a dynamic era of social change and nationa[...]