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Impeachment of a president: Andrew Johnson, the Blacks, and Reconstruction PDF

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IMPEACHMENT OF A PRESIDENT Andrew Johnson, the Blacks, and Reconstruction k \.- -. IMPEACHMENT Andrew Johnson OF A the Blacks, PRESIDENT by Hans L. Trefousse Copyright 0 1999 by Hans L. Trefousse All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. First edition published by The University of Tennessee Press, 1975. ISBN ~ €2 34 2 -1 92 2-4 (hardcover) ISBN 0-8232-19 23-2 (paperback) ISSN 1523-4606 Reconstructing America, no. 1 03 02 01 00 gg 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America This Page Intentionally Left Blank Introduction ix Prefuce xiii One, Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction 3 Two. The Radicalsa nd Reconstruction 17 Three. The Widening Breach 30 Four. First Demands for Im'peachment 48 Five. Presidential Defiance 67 Six. The Election of 1867 85 Seven. Failure of the First Impeachment 98 Eight. Renewed Presidential Defiance 1 15 Nine. Impeachment of the President 131 Ten. The President's Trial 146 Eleven. Failure of theI mpeachment 165 Twelve. Results of the Acquittal 180 Notes 191 Bibliography 232 Index 245 This Page Intentionally Left Blank Introduction

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In Impeachment of a President, Hans L. Trefousse focuses on the causes of the failure to convict, the consequences of the acquittal, and the relationship of the impeachment to the ill success of Reconstruction. Drawing on a wealth of material, some only recently made available, Professor Trefousse s
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