Overview
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
- | Publisher: ABC-CLIO
- | Publication Date: Jun 22, 2001
- | Number of Pages: 400 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 1576070301
- | ISBN-13: 9781576070307
