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Article: Impeached.(Books)(Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy)(Book review)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 3, 2009
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Byline: David Holahan
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868 is a strange and compelling drama played out on the stage of a young nation barely at peace with itself. We may think we live in a divisive era today but it doesn't hold a candle to post-Civil War America.
The story of Johnson's journey to impeachment, told in a lucid and long-overdue reexamination by David O. Stewart in Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy, begins in 1864 when Lincoln decided to replace Hannibal Hamlin, his perfectly serviceable vice president, with Johnson, a Tennessean. Lincoln made the move in an effort to promote national ...