Full name: Andrew Johnson: A Biography

Author: Hans L. Trefousse Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, Biographies, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393317428 0393317420

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).