Download or read book Andrew Johnson: Congress and Reconstruction written by Howard Pervear Nash (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book undertakes to tell the story, largely in the words of the participants in the events it describes, of the controversy between President Andrew Johnson, President Abraham Lincoln's successor, and most of the Republican members of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses, about Reconstruction after the American Civil War. - Author's note.