The failed promise : Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson
by Levine, Robert S. 1953- (Author)
Summary
"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 aggressiv... Full description
- Prologue: Lincoln's Second Inauguration
- Southern Unionist
- The Mission of the War
- "Abraham Lincoln Dies, the Republic Lives"
- "There Is No Such Thing as Reconstruction"
- A Moses in the White House
- The Black Delegation Visits a Moses of Their People
- The President's Riots
- Shadowing Johnson, Defying the Loyalists
- Sources of Danger to the Republic
- A Job Offer
- The Trials of Impeachment
- "Demented Moses of Tennessee"
- Epilogue: "We Have a Fight on Our Hands".