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• ISBN: 9781416547495
• ISBN: 1416547495
• Physical Description: x, 447 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
• Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-426) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Bad beginnings : Spring 1865 -- President Johnson : April 1865 -- Land of revolution : November 1865 -- The opposition gathers : December 1865 -- A government divided against itself : January-June 1866 -- Political war : July-November 1866 -- False start on impeachment : December 1866-June 1867 -- The dangerous sphinx : August-November 1867 -- Impeachment, round two : December 1867 -- Impeachment, round three : December 12, 1867-February 15, 1868 -- Showdown on Seventeenth street : February 15-21, 1868 -- The dam bursts : February 22-24, 1868 -- The Waterloo struggle : February 24-March 4, 1868 -- Send in the lawyers : March 5-29, 1868 -- Influence and Edmund Cooper : March 1868 -- Ben Butler's horse case : March 30-April 8, 1868 -- Defending the President : April 9-20, 1868 -- Counting to seven : April 1868 -- An avalanche of talk : April 22-May 6, 1868 -- The dark men : May 5-9, 1868 -- Scrambling for votes : May 6-12, 1868 -- Desperate days : May 12-15, 1868 -- Free again : May 16-26, 1868 -- Searching for scandal : May 17-July 5, 1868 -- The caravan moves on : January 1, 1869- -- The Rorschach blot.

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Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 > Impeachment.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Influence.
North Caroliniana.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1869.