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The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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Author:
Robert S. Levine
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
August 24, 2021
Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his account of the struggle between Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson.
What The Reviewers Say
... engrossing.
... fascinating if flawed.
Levine deftly lays the groundwork for a better understanding of what impeachment is and isn’t, and how it does or doesn’t have practical application today, by delving into that first impeachment.
... a fresh take on the racial and political turmoil that followed the Civil War.
