The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation

Pro-Union Democrat and the only senator from a Confederate state not to resign at his state’s secession, Lincoln’s running mate on the National Union ticket and an “accidental President” after Lincoln’s assassination, impeached but not convicted, Andrew Johnson became a vivid example of a defiant, erratic and highly unpopular President deeply at odds with his Congress through a period of disruptive social and political change. Wineapple is an award-winning essayist, academic and critic, currently teaching at Columbia University and the New School in New York City. Author also of biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Janet Flanner, and Gertrude and Leo Stein, she was previously the Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at The Graduate School, CUNY, and its Writer-in-Residence.