Author:
Summers, Mark W. (Mark Wahlgren), 1951-
Imprint:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Description329 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Prologue: empire day? -- Paranoid politics, 1789-1861 -- Copperheads and consolidationists, 1861-1865 -- Black scare: the South after slavery -- Have we a constitution? --Do they want still more blood? Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction -- Horrors on horrors accumulate: July 1866 -- Do you want Andrew Johnson for president or king? -- A dangerous stir in Maryland -- Impeachment fevers, 1867 -- If you don't kill the beast: impeachment at last -- Let us have peace -- The wolf who cried wolf -- Coda: the dog that barked too much at night.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-322) and index.
