Andrew Johnson President on Trial Author:Milton Lomask When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated during the closing hours of the Civil War, the only men in the country unreservedly delighted to see the predidency taken over by Andrew Johnson of Tennessee were the radicals of the Republican Party. These politicians had grave misgivings about Lincoln's plan to return the eleven states of the defeated Conf... more »ederacy to the Union rapidly and on lenient terms. Becuse Andrew Johnson was himself a southerner and because he had suffered bitterly at southern hands during the war, most radicals believed that he would lose no time in repudiating Lincoln's policy of "unconditional foriveness" Andrew Johnson disappointed them. He decided to carry out Lincoln's policies to the best of his ability, and the battle was on... This book tells the story of one of the most turbulent political battles in American history, a battle climaxed in the spring of 1868 by an attemtpt to remove the president from office by impeaching him.« less