Author: Martha Eva CorleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Theatre, 1865-1869
Author: Martha Eva CorleyAndrew Johnson
Author: Annette Gordon-ReedPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429924616
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
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 the nation's wounds after the Civil War, and to work with a Congress controlled by the so-called Radical Republicans. Annette Gordon-Reed, one of America's leading historians of slavery, shows how ill-suited Johnson was for this daunting task. His vision of reconciliation abandoned the millions of former slaves (for whom he felt undisguised contempt) and antagonized congressional leaders, who tried to limit his powers and eventually impeached him. The climax of Johnson's presidency was his trial in the Senate and his acquittal by a single vote, which Gordon-Reed recounts with drama and palpable tension. Despite his victory, Johnson's term in office was a crucial missed opportunity; he failed the country at a pivotal moment, leaving America with problems that we are still trying to solve.
The Private Theatre of Victor Hugo
Author: Ford's Theatre, Tenth Street, Above E. ...
Author: Ford's Theatre (Washington, D.C.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theaters
Languages : en
Pages :
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American Theatre: 1869-1914
Author: Gerald Martin BordmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Theatre
Author: Thomas Ebenezer ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A History of the Theatre in America, From It's Beginnnings to the Present Time, Vol. 1
Author: Arthur Hornblow (1865)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Daly's Initial Decade in the American Theatre, 1860-1869
Author: Albert A. AsermelyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
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