Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869 - Hardcover

Buch 25 von 42: The American Presidents

Gordon-Reed, Annette; Schlesinger, Arthur Meier

 
9780805069488: Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0805069488 ISBN 13: 9780805069488
Verlag: Macmillan US, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

A portrait of America's seventeenth president describes how Andrew Johnson was unexpectedly thrust into America's highest office following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, his failed efforts to bring about reconciliation following the Civil War, the antagonism of congressional leaders who sought his impeachment, and his legacy for the present.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Annette Gordon-Reed is the author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History and the National Book Award. She holds three appointments at Harvard University: professor of law at Harvard Law School, professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. A MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, she is also the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy; the coauthor with Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., of Vernon Can Read!; and the editor of Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History. She lives in New York City.

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Verlag
Macmillan US
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0805069488
ISBN 13 
9780805069488
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
166
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Henry Holt
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