Andrew Johnson: A Biographical Companion Biographical Companions

The recent impeachment has sparked a resurgence of interest in Andrew Johnson. America’s seventeenth president came to office at the end of the tumultuous Civil War. In spite of a successful political career spanning five decades, Johnson was one of the most unpopular and unsuccessful of all American presidents.

Johnson was the subject of considerable historical controversy, and his conservative stand on nearly every social and political issue altered the course of Reconstruction. A president worth getting to know, Andrew Johnson was: the only senator from a Confederate state to remain in Congress during the Civil War the only president to receive no formal schooling the only president to be reelected to the Senate after his presidency the first president to be impeached.

This illustrated A-to-Z encyclopedia provides carefully selected entries covering the people, events, and concepts relevant to Johnson’s life. Also includes chronology and index.