Andrew Johnson's Civil War and Reconstruction

by Paul H. Bergeron

Few figures in American political history are as reviled as Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president of the United States. Taking office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, he clashed constantly with Congress during the tumultuous early years of Reconstruction. He opposed federally-mandated black suffrage and the Fourteenth Amendment and vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights bills.

In this new book, Paul H. Bergeron, a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572337486
• ISBN13: 9781572337480
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"