Later in the day Booth wrote a letter to Coyle and gave it to the actor John Matthews, a friend of Coyle's, to be delivered the following day for publication in the Intelligencer. After he heard about the assassination, Matthews read ...
Discusses the early life, family, political career, and contributions of the seventeenth president of the United States.
ANDREW JOHNSON'S LIFE AT A GLANCE * PERSONAL Nickname : None Birth date : December 29 , 1808 Birthplace : Raleigh , North Carolina Father's name : Jacob Johnson Mother's name : Mary McDonough Johnson Education : No formal education ...
A biography discussing the personal life, education, and political career of the seventeenth President of the United States, Andrew Johnson.
This biography introduces readers to Andrew Johnson including his career as a tailor, early political career, and key events from Johnson's administration including Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, and his ...
Johnson to William Lowry , February 13 , 1870 , R. S. Saunders to Johnson , December 13 , 19 , 1869 , J. C. Burch to Johnson ... 2ff . , 10–12 ; A. S. Colyar to Johnson , May 19 , August 30 , October 5 , 1870 , John McGaugey et al . to ...
1. 3 Leroy P. Graf and Ralph W. Haskins, Papers of Andrew Johnson, Volume 1, 1822-1851 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1967), xii. 4 Ibid., 3-4. 5 According to author John H. Dewitt, Jr., Johnson received formal lessons from ...
A portrait of America's seventeenth president describes Andrew Johnson's failed efforts to bring about reconciliation following the Civil War, the antagonism of congressional leaders who sought his impeachment, and his legacy for the ...
Historian Hans L. Trefousse gives us "a brilliant, compassionate portrait of a dynamic era of social change and national healing, and of the tragic failure of an American leader" (LIBRARY JOURNAL). Photos.
A biography of the man who became President upon the assassination of Lincoln emphasizing his turbulent White House years.
Andrew Johnson remains a paradox to those who study the controversial era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. The effort to understand Johnson has produced a tremendous outpouring of works...
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.
Andrew Johnson: Plebeian and Patriot
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, ...
This book undertakes to tell the story, largely in the words of the participants in the events it describes, of the controversy between President Andrew Johnson, President Abraham Lincoln's successor,...
Surveys the political career and private life of the only president ever to be impeached.
Andrew Johnson's renaissance, coming 6 years after an unprecedented effort to impeach and remove him from the presidency, represents one of the greatest comebacks in American political history and serves as a testament to a man who could ...
Follows the life and career of the statesman who, after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, became the seventeenth president of the United States.
Follows the life and career of the statesman who became the seventeenth president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.