Andrew Johnson (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781576070307)

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.

Author: Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein,Richard Zuczek
ISBN-10: 1576070301
ISBN-13: 9781576070307
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Language: English
Published: 06/22/2001
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 10.30h x 7.30w x 1.07d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/2001 pg. 170
Booklist 11/01/2001 pg. 504
Choice 01/01/2002 pg. 861
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2002 pg. 325
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 51
Booklist 06/01/2003 pg. 1832