A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812 .
President Andrew Johnson, a former slave owner from Tennessee, was challenged by Northern Congressmen, Radical Republicans led by Thaddeus Stephens.
With Lincoln\'s assassination, his "team of rivals," in Doris Kearns Goodwin\'s phrase, was left adrift.
After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruction, which set back black Americans and isolated the South for a century.
A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812