num_pages: 464
description: A definitive life of the flawed man who succeeded to the American presidency after Lincoln's assassination. Politically shrewd but fatally unable to adapt to new political realities Andrew Johnson presided disastrously over the tumultuous first years of Reconstruction. In this provocative account Hans 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 ).
language: English
title: Andrew Johnson: A Biography
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company