{"product_id":"the-impeachers-the-trial-of-andrew-johnson-and-the-dream-of-a-just-nation-paperback","title":"The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrenda Wineapple\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Jennifer Szalai, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e- NPR - \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president.\"--Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of America\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and Vice-President Andrew Johnson became \"the Accidental President,\" it was a dangerous time in America. Congress was divided over how the Union should be reunited: when and how the secessionist South should regain full status, whether former Confederates should be punished, and when and whether black men should be given the vote. Devastated by war and resorting to violence, many white Southerners hoped to restore a pre-Civil War society, if without slavery, and the pugnacious Andrew Johnson seemed to share their goals. With the unchecked power of executive orders, Johnson ignored Congress, pardoned rebel leaders, promoted white supremacy, opposed civil rights, and called Reconstruction unnecessary. It fell to Congress to stop the American president who acted like a king. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With profound insights and making use of extensive research, Brenda Wineapple dramatically evokes this pivotal period in American history, when the country was rocked by the first-ever impeachment of a sitting American president. And she brings to vivid life the extraordinary characters who brought that impeachment forward: the willful Johnson and his retinue of advocates--including complicated men like Secretary of State William Seward--as well as the equally complicated visionaries committed to justice and equality for all, like Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, and Ulysses S. Grant. Theirs was a last-ditch, patriotic, and Constitutional effort to render the goals of the Civil War into reality and to make the Union free, fair, and whole. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Impeachers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In this superbly lyrical work, Brenda Wineapple has plugged a glaring hole in our historical memory through her vivid and sweeping portrayal of President Andrew Johnson's 1868 impeachment. 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A landmark study.\"\u003cb\u003e--Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eGrant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrenda Wineapple \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of several books including \u003ci\u003eEcstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877, \u003c\/i\u003enamed a best book of the year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e among other publications; \u003ci\u003eWhite Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, \u003c\/i\u003e a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; \u003ci\u003eHawthorne: A Life, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Ambassador Award for Best Biography of the Year; and \u003ci\u003eSister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein\u003c\/i\u003e. Her numerous other honors include a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, two National Endowment Fellowships in the Humanities, and, most recently, a National Endowment Public Scholars Award. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Society of American Historians and regularly contributes to major publications such as \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 592\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 19, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769161580832,"sku":"9780812987911","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/43ced42d899e4e58bd8c35227558f58e.webp?v=1780343108","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-impeachers-the-trial-of-andrew-johnson-and-the-dream-of-a-just-nation-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}