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Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation | Brenda Wineapple
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"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president."--Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of (…more)
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#CurrentlyListening — really interesting so far.

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Comparisons to recent events are tempting, but the huge takeaway for me was just how much of an opportunity was undone thanks to the malice and bigotry of Andrew Johnson. And what do you do when you're stuck with an incompetent scofflaw of a chief executive trying to unwin hard-fought battles? You impeach them. Even if you know it won't pass the Senate you impeach the bastard anyway. You owe it to history. And oops there I go with recent events.

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An intemperate white supremacist US president flouts laws and openly wars with Congress, setting up his own impeachment. 2019? Nope. (Well, ok, yes.) This is Andrew Johnson in the 1860s. While dense in places, this book is a great read, especially as a primer for what is likely to come in the modern era. The parallels are extraordinary.

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It‘s Andrew Johnson. But I‘m going to guess you were thinking of someone else.

julesG 😂😂 5y
Amiable Yikes. 😳 5y
Texreader Good gosh that‘s accurate... 5y
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Hmmm…now what‘s that line about history repeating?

ljuliel 👍🏼 5y
RamsFan1963 The more things change, the more things stay the same... 5y
Texreader This is a chunkster! Is it an easy read or very academic? I‘m trying to decide whether I want to read it. 5y
Hooked_on_books @Texreader It‘s somewhere in between. At times it zips by and other times I feel like I should take notes. But it‘s completely fascinating and a good mirror for our common era, though of course there are differences. 5y
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