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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A thorough, illustrated biography discussing the childhood, career, family, and term of Andrew Johnson, seventeenth president of the United States. Presidents of the U.S.A. chronicles the lives of our nation's leaders, including some of the most famous figures in American history. Each book tells the fascinating story of a single president, from childhood and early life to the presidency and beyond. Additional sections explain the branches of government,...
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Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the seventeenth president of the United States, from his humble beginnings as a tailor in North Carolina through his controversial term as the first post-Civil War president and beyond.
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Publisher
Time Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Overview: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from office. Andrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the events at Ford's Theatre thrust him into the nation's highest office. Johnson faced a nearly impossible task-to succeed America's greatest chief executive, to bind...
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English
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This book tells the story of the twelve years after Lincoln's assassination. The viewpoint is inspired by the Dunning School, who favor conservative elements, and argues that reconstruction involved literal torture of the Southern people, with concomitant abuse of the constitution.
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The absorbing narrative of Frederick Douglass's heated struggle with President Andrew Johnson reveals a new perspective on Reconstruction's demise. When Andrew Johnson rose to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, African Americans were optimistic that Johnson would pursue aggressive federal policies for Black equality. Just a year earlier, Johnson had cast himself as a "Moses" for the Black community. Frederick Douglass, the country's...
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