The Impeachers

Brenda Wineapple's *The Impeachers* vividly chronicles the tumultuous period following Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the subsequent impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. As the nation grappled with Reconstruction, Johnson, the "Accidental President," clashed with a divided Congress over the South's readmission, punishment for Confederates, and black suffrage. Utilizing executive power, Johnson pardoned rebel leaders and resisted civil rights, aiming to restore a pre-war society and provoking a constitutional crisis. Wineapple brings to life key figures like Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, and Ulysses S. Grant, whose combined efforts constituted a patriotic struggle to uphold the goals of the Civil War and ensure a free, fair, and whole Union.

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