Andrew Johnson: A Biography

Author/Contributor(s):	Trefousse, Hans Louis
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	12/01/1997
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

A definitive life of the flawed man who succeeded to the American presidency after Lincoln's assassination and who presided, disastrously, over the tumultuous first years of Reconstruction. 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.