{"product_id":"andrew-johnson","title":"Andrew Johnson","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis A–Z encyclopedia provides carefully selected entries covering the people, events, and concepts relevant to Andrew Johnson's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Johnson was—and is—an American paradox. He never attended school, yet fought for public education. He was a Southern slaveholder who opposed secession and enforced emancipation. Born into poverty, he became the 17th president of the United States—and the first U.S. president to be impeached.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new volume thoroughly examines the troubled career of our most unpopular president—not to resuscitate his reputation, but because his personal contradictions reflected those of his country: a democratic nation conceived in liberty, yet existing half slave and half free; an economy of yeoman farmers and independent artisans being swept into industrialization and a market system; a country fond of tradition, but caught up in social, economic, and political revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMore than 350 entries cover the five decades of Andrew Johnson's successful career, from 1828–1875\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelected original documents include the Articles of Impeachment, speeches, proclamations, vetoes, and letters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54217725837656,"sku":"9781576070307","price":55.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781576070307__67c1e0062b95c_1fcce7c6-9558-46a4-8fb1-e43150ecad14.jpg?v=1741157048","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/andrew-johnson","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}