Re-evaluation of Andrew Johnson's role as President, and history of the political scene, from 1865 to 1868.

Describes America at the start of Reconstruction and identifies President Andrew Johnson as one of the reasons it proceeded with such difficulty.

Few figures in American political history are as reviled as Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president of the United States. Taking office after the assassinatio

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

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times • The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Publishers Weekly “This absorbin