Impeachment of a President: Andrew Johnson, the Blacks, and Reconstruction (Reconstructing America)

"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 sheds new light on the President's objectives and character."--BOOK JACKET Contents......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 Preface......Page 14 One. Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction......Page 20 Two. The Radicals and Reconstruction......Page 34 Three. The Widening Breach......Page 47 Four. First Demands for Impeachment......Page 65 Five. Presidential Defiance......Page 84 Six. The Election of 1867......Page 102 Seven. Failure of the First Impeachment......Page 115 Eight. Renewed Presidential Defiance......Page 132 Nine. Impeachment of the President......Page 148 Ten. The President’s Trial......Page 163 Eleven. Failure of the Impeachment......Page 182 Twelve. Results of the Acquittal......Page 197 Notes......Page 208 Bibliography......Page 249 B......Page 262 E......Page 263 J......Page 264 M......Page 265 R......Page 266 S......Page 267 W......Page 268 Y......Page 269 Originally published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1975.