Andrew Johnson and the Negro - Bowen, David Warren
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"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 Andrew Johnson, who was thrust into the office of presidency by Lincoln's assassination, described himself as a "friend of the colored man." Twentieth century historians have assessed Johnson's racial attitudes differently. In his revisionist study, David Bowen explores…mehr

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"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 Andrew Johnson, who was thrust into the office of presidency by Lincoln's assassination, described himself as a "friend of the colored man." Twentieth century historians have assessed Johnson's racial attitudes differently. 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. A slave owner who defended the institution until the Civil War, Jonson accepted emancipation. Once Johnson became president, however, his racial prejudice reasserted itself as a significant influence on his Reconstruction policies. Bowen's study deftly analyzes the difficult personality of the seventeenth president and the political influences that molded him. This portrait of a man who, despite his many egalitarian notions, practiced racism, will intrigue historians and readers interested in Civil War and Reconstruction history alike.
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David Warren Bowen (1944-2008), taught history at the University of West Alabama until his death in an automobile crash. He served on the staff of The Papers of Andrew Johnson and as the executive director of the Tennessee American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. Bowen was a competitive bass fisherman and avid fan of the UT Vols.