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“The fullest recounting we have of the high politics of that immediate post-Civil War period…Stewart’s graceful style and storytelling ability make for a good read.” —Bruce Kuklick, The Washington Post
“Likely to become the standard version of this historic clash between a president and Congress.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Impeached is a fascinating account of the attempt to remove Andrew Johnson from the presidency. Vigorously written, it is by all means the best account of this troubled episode in our history.” —David Herbert Donald, author of Lincoln
“Magnificent….Splendidly illuminates an important chapter in American history.” —Roger Bishop, BookPage
“David Stewart’s Impeached is as riveting and rollicking as the best Washington novel.” —Steven Brill, author of The Teamsters and After; founder of The American Lawyer and Court TV
- Sales Rank: #594704 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Simon n Schuster
- Published on: 2009-05-12
- Released on: 2009-05-12
- Format: Deckle Edge
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.50" h x 6.40" w x 9.30" l, 1.65 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 464 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Fascinating Account of Johnson's Impeachment
By R. A. Burke
What would you say if someone were to ask you to come up with one fact about President Andrew Johnson? Many would respond by saying that he was the 17th President of the United States or that Johnson succeeded to the Presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Some might add that Johnson only served one term. I'm sure many of us would recall that President Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House of Representatives but acquitted by one vote by the U.S. Senate. Many of us might also state our belief that the reason Johnson was impeached was that he disagreed with the harsh and vengeful policies of the Radical Republicans and because, following in Lincoln's footsteps, he adopted a compassionate and conciliatory attitude toward the South. The reality, as David O. Stewart amply demonstrates in this book, is quite different. Johnson was a staunch states' rights advocate and didn't see a problem with the former Confederate states doing whatever they wanted now that the Civil War was over. Ex-Confederates were elected to government office and Southern governments imposed Black Codes to deny former slaves their rights. President Johnson also opposed passage of the 14th Amendment.
Some of us may remember having read President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Profiles in Courage and will recall his account of the courage of Kansas Senator Edmund G. Ross and I quote, "the man who saved a President and who, as a result, may have preserved for ourselves and posterity constitutional government in the United States." Again, David Stewart shows us in this book that the reality is quite different. In a post-Watergate world, we've become all to accustomed to stories of political crime and corruption but I think that anyone who reads Impeached will be shocked at the scale of bribery and patronage in 19th Century American politics. Mr. Stewart restores Thaddeus Stevens to his rightful position in American history and provides a informative discussion of the concept of "high crimes and misdemeanors." Anyone looking for fresh insights into the history of American government and politics will want to read this book.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Great read!
By Amazon Customer
What a good writer David O. Stewart is! This book is absolutely fascinating. Frankly, I never even heard of President Johnson before, and didn't know that any president other than Nixon had ever been impeached. Johnson was vice president when Lincoln was assassinated so he was the president who wound up overseeing reconstruction of the South after the war. He himself had been a southern democrat and was very sympathetic with the southern states. Congress, on the other hand, consisted of representatives from only the northern states, since the southern states had all seceded. So the president and the congress has extremely different views about how to proceed. Stewart is a great historian, also a great legal scholar, and also, to boot, a great story teller. Allin all, a great read.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
On the Edge
By James Hiller
Being quite the Lincoln fan, I've read up on so much of his life, that sometimes its difficult to learn anything much new about the man. Oh, from time to time I pick up a fascinating book (the latest is this The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage, but for the most part, history repeats itself, maybe told in a different way. I never really considered what life was like in the country in the aftermath of Lincoln's assassination, and the terrible rift our country suffered as a result. Impeached, a brilliant new book by David O. Stewart, remarkably adds much to the Lincoln canon, much like ripples in a pond after a boulder has been tossed in.
Stewart picks up his book right at the point of Lincoln's second inauguration, when a supposedly nervous Andrew Johnson makes his first horrible impression by downing whisky prior to his swearing in, and walks into the event visibly tipsy. This rather auspicious start quickly sets off a series of events, which quickly lead to the Radical Republicans in Congress working towards kicking out the President. Corralled by Congressman stalwart Thaddeus Stevens, who gives the meaning of the word persistent a run for the money, the RRs attempt to kick good ol' southern President Johnson out of office for frustrating the will of Congress in the path towards Reconstruction. By passing legislation that obviously crosses the line of Constitutionality, and having Johnson ignore it, they set up the man for quite a fall.
Andrew Johnson springs their trap in a battle over equally stubborn Secretary of War Edwin Stanton's refusal to leave his office after being dismissed by Johnson (Stanton actually sets up camp in the office to avoid being locked out of it). With events resembling something that not even Shakespeare could concoct, personalities such as U.S. Grant and William T. Sherman are dragged into the middle of this melee, with honor and duty being displayed in front.
What surprised me is the "character" of Andrew Johnson. Not having studied much about him at all, I pictured him as a milquetoast wimpy character who was bullied around by Congress, even though he was carrying out Lincoln's wishes. Boy, was I wrong. First, Stewart's Johnson is a fighter, and unfortunately, due possibly to his overinflated ego, an instigator in many of the events that led to his problems. By refusing to work with Congress, and merely try to steamroll over them, Johnson planted the seeds of the battle. Also, Johnson aggressively worked to ease the conditions of Reconstruction on his favored south, making life difficult for the recently freed slaves and the armies that tried to quell the anti-black sentiment that soon festered in the former confederacy. Johnson was no supporter of civil rights for the freedmen, and made no efforts to protect them. Perhaps that's Johnson's true legacy, over the failed impeachment.
Stewart's writing is fast paced, not overly burdened with people and names to remember that sometimes befall other non-fiction books. His prose evokes the time, explains an event, issue, philosophy, and then moves on with his story, making for an extremely pleasurable read.
One often thinks about what Reconstruction would have been like under Lincoln. At Stewart himself wonders, he thinks that Lincoln too made have been softer on the south like Johnson, but would have definitely not allowed the backlash against the freed slaves. Maybe with Lincoln, the Jim Crow laws, lynchings, and "separate but equal" treatment of minorities would have been lessened, maybe not. In any case, we had Johnson, who through the bully pulpit of his misbegotten presidency, led the country to create a system of unfairness that lasted nearly a hundred years. Perhaps the RR's should have succeeded, even though they never really quite had enough to convict the man.
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