This A-Z encyclopedia provides carefully selected entries covering the people, events, and concepts relevant to Andrew Johnson's life.Andrew Johnson was-and is-an American paradox. He never attended school, yet fought for public education. He was a Southern slaveholder who opposed secession and enforced emancipation. Born into poverty, he became the 17th president of the United States-and the first U.S. president to be impeached.This new volume thoroughly examines the troubled career of our most unpopular president-not to resuscitate his reputation, but because his personal contradictions reflected those of his country: a democratic nation conceived in liberty, yet existing half slave and half free, an economy of yeoman farmers and independent artisans being swept into industrialization and a market system, a country fond of tradition, but caught up in social, economic, and political revolution.
Titel
Andrew Johnson
Untertitel
A Biographical Companion
EAN
9781576075869
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E-Book (pdf)
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Veröffentlichung
22.06.2001
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
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400
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