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Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson

Schroeder-Lein, Glenna R.
Zuczek, Richard

Hardcover

Series: Biographical Companions

Presidents & Heads of StateCivil War Period (1850-1877)General Political Science

ISBN10: 1576070301
ISBN13: 9781576070307
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: Jun 22 2001
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.07 Width: 7.30 Depth: 10.30
Language: English

This A-Z encyclopedia provides carefully selected entries covering the people, events, and concepts relevant to Andrew Johnson's life.

Andrew Johnson was--and is--an American paradox. He never attended school, yet fought for public education. He was a Southern slaveholder who opposed secession and enforced emancipation. Born into poverty, he became the 17th president of the United States--and the first U.S. president to be impeached.

This new volume thoroughly examines the troubled career of our most unpopular president--not to resuscitate his reputation, but because his personal contradictions reflected those of his country: a democratic nation conceived in liberty, yet existing half slave and half free; an economy of yeoman farmers and independent artisans being swept into industrialization and a market system; a country fond of tradition, but caught up in social, economic, and political revolution.

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