[PDF] President Andrew Johnson At Albion eBook

Author : Garry Boulard
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1440102392

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In 1866, President Andrew Johnson was trying to find solutions to a bewildering array of immediate post-Civil War challenges: what to do about the recently liberated slaves, how to bring the South back into the Union, whether or not former members of the Confederacy should be pardoned and forgiven for their war time acts and building a thriving national economy that would provide jobs for millions of new veterans. Confronted with an increasingly assertive Congress that had been frustrated by its lack of influence during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, Johnson decided to take his case directly to the American people for the fall mid-term elections of 1866, becoming the first president in history to actively engage in a political campaign. In a trade ride in which he was joined by the hero Ulysses S. Grant, the very young George Armstrong Custer, and the legendary William Seward, the secretary of state who was viciously attacked on the same night that Lincoln was murdered, Johnson spoke to hundreds of thousands of voters from New York to Chicago and St. Louis. But because of his confrontational, intemperate rhetorical style and habit of engaging hecklers in direct verbal battle, Johnson alienated more people than he won over, resulting not only in a thumping defeat for his cause at the polls, but a move to impeach and remove him from office by opponents who were convinced that Johnson's behavior on the Swing Around the Circle showed that he was mentally unbalanced. Repeatedly referred to by historians and reporters in the decades since, the Swing Around the Circle has never been explored in one single book until now.

Author : Ruth Smalley
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 38,7 MB
Release : 2003-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781570722578

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Foregoing the constraints of space and time, this book brings to life Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United States, for a candid interview concerning his life and times. Described by some as the most unfortunate president, Andrew Johnson took control of the country following the assassination of President Lincoln—a Southern man in Northern territory with the fate of a divided nation thrust upon him. Kids can join the interviewer in the story as she unfolds his life through intimate questions and thorough study.

Author : Kate Havelin
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822510000

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Follows the life and career of the statesman who, after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, became the seventeenth president of the United States.

Author : Albert E. Castel
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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A critical study of his administration assessing his Reconstruction program, and economic, foreign relations, and Indian policies.