Andrew Johnson And The Negro

Author : David Warren Bowen
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572333376
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Andrew Johnson and the Negro written by David Warren Bowen and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Johnson, who was thrust into the office of presidency by Lincoln's assassination, described himself as a "friend of the colored man." Twentieth century historians have assessed Johnson's racial attitudes differently. In his revisionist study, David Bowen explores Johnson's racist bias more deeply than other historians to date, and maintains that racism was, in fact, a prime motivator of his policies as a public official. A slave owner who defended the institution until the Civil War, Jonson accepted emancipation. Once Johnson became president, however, his racial prejudice reasserted itself as a significant influence on his Reconstruction policies. Bowen's study deftly analyzes the difficult personality of the seventeenth president and the political influences that molded him. This portrait of a man who, despite his many egalitarian notions, practiced racism, will intrigue historians and readers interested in Civil War and Reconstruction history alike.

Author : Hans Louis Trefousse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impeachment of a President written by Hans Louis Trefousse and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the causes of the failure to convict Jackson, the consequences of his acquittal, and the relationship of the impeachment to the ill success of Reconstruction. Trefousse (history, Brooklyn College) also re-examines Jackson's character. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Kate Havelin
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822510000
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Andrew Johnson written by Kate Havelin and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the life and career of the statesman who, after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, became the seventeenth president of the United States.

Author : Robert S. Levine
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1324021799
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Failed Promise written by Robert S. Levine and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson. When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, seemingly more progressive than Lincoln, looked like the ideal person to lead the country. He had already cast himself as a “Moses” for the Black community, and African Americans were optimistic that he would pursue aggressive federal policies for Black equality. Despite this early promise, Frederick Douglass, the country’s most influential Black leader, soon grew disillusioned with Johnson’s policies and increasingly doubted the president was sincere in supporting Black citizenship. In a dramatic and pivotal meeting between Johnson and a Black delegation at the White House, the president and Douglass came to verbal blows over the course of Reconstruction. As he lectured across the country, Douglass continued to attack Johnson’s policies, while raising questions about the Radical Republicans’ hesitancy to grant African Americans the vote. Johnson meanwhile kept his eye on Douglass, eventually making a surprising effort to appoint him to a key position in his administration. Levine grippingly portrays the conflicts that brought Douglass and the wider Black community to reject Johnson and call for a guilty verdict in his impeachment trial. He brings fresh insight by turning to letters between Douglass and his sons, speeches by Douglass and other major Black figures like Frances E. W. Harper, and articles and letters in the Christian Recorder, the most important African American newspaper of the time. In counterpointing the lives and careers of Douglass and Johnson, Levine offers a distinctive vision of the lost promise and dire failure of Reconstruction, the effects of which still reverberate today.

Author : Albert E. Castel
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Presidency of Andrew Johnson written by Albert E. Castel and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1979 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical study of his administration assessing his Reconstruction program, and economic, foreign relations, and Indian policies.

Author : Eric L. McKitrick
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195057074
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction written by Eric L. McKitrick and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes America at the start of Reconstruction and identifies President Andrew Johnson as one of the reasons it proceeded with such difficulty.

Author : Eric L. McKitrick
Publisher : Chicago U.P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.2V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction written by Eric L. McKitrick and published by Chicago U.P. This book was released on 1960 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-evaluation of Andrew Johnson's role as President, and history of the political scene, from 1865 to 1868.

Author : David O. Stewart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416547509
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impeached written by David O. Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist account of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson identifies specific incendiary behaviors on the part of the seventeenth president that the author believes failed to heal post-Civil War America.

Author : James Sawyer Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of Andrew Johnson written by James Sawyer Jones and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Negro in the American Rebellion written by William Wells Brown and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1867 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: