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Andrew Johnson and the NegroBowen, David Warren Cloth Edition, $31.00s Cloth ISBN: 0-87049-584-4 Status: In Print Publication Date: 
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Description"Bowen has probed the working of Andrew Johnson's mind. His analysis illuminates the character of East Tennessee's tailor president and the contradictions--as well as the consistency--of his policies toward slavery and toward blacks."-LaWanda Cox, author of Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership. In his revisionist study, David Bowen explores Johnson's racist bias more deeply than other historians to date, and maintains that racism was, in fact, a prime motivator of his policies as a public official. Bowen's study deftly analyzes the difficult personality of the seventeenth president and the political influences that molded him. | |
