Andrew Johnson
1865-1869
$42.70
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
14 February 2011
Summary
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from office.
Andrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln’s vice president, the events at Ford’s Theatre thrust him into the nation’s highest office.
Johnson faced a nearly impossible task–to succeed America’s greatest chief executive, to bind the nation’s wounds after the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780805069488 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0805069488 |
| Author: | Annette Gordon-Reed |
| Publisher: | Times Books |
| Imprint: | Times Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 299g |
| Dimensions: | 145mm x 215mm |
| Series: | American Presidents (Times) |
| Audience Age: | 14-18 |
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Critics Review
“In this short and brilliantly written book, award-winning author Gordon-Reed … argues that the nation went from the best President to the worst during this most crucial period of its history.”
–Library Journal
“In a short biography, all bases can be covered, but the author is still left to exercise the tone of a personal essay, which this author accomplishes brilliantly.”
–Booklist (starred review)
“A fair-minded, toned-down portrait of a deeply problematic president who could not rise to the country’s challenge after the Civil War.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed is the author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History and the National Book Award. She holds three appointments at Harvard University: professor of law at Harvard Law School, professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. A MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, she is also the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy; the coauthor with Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., of Vernon Can Read!; and the editor of Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History. She lives in New York City.
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