《Andrew Johnson And Reconstruction》

PART ONE：18651

1Andrew Johnson：The Case Reopened3

2A Democratic Society Emerges from Total War15

Ⅰ Public Feeling：＂War Hatred＂versus＂Back to Normal＂15

Ⅱ ＂Symbolic Requirements＂21

3The State of Parties，186542

Ⅰ The Republican Party and the Morality of the Civil War42

Ⅱ Reconstruction as Construed from the Proclamations48

Ⅲ The Radical Republican：The Meaning of＂Radicalism＂53

Ⅳ The Democrats and Reconstruction67

Ⅴ The＂Moderate Unionist＂and Johnson＇s Southern＂Experiment＂76

4 Andrew Johnson，Outsider85

5Reconstruction as a Problem in Constitutional Theory93

Ⅰ The＂Southern＂Theory97

Ⅱ ＂Conquered Provinces＂99

Ⅲ The Presidential Theory101

Ⅳ ＂State Suicide＂110

Ⅴ The Solution：Shellabarger＇s＂Forfeited Rights＂Theory113

6Reconstruction as a Problem in Policy120

Ⅰ Ambiguities of Wartime Reconstruction122

Ⅱ Johnson＇s Emergence from Military Governor to President134

Ⅲ The Executive Pardoning Policy142

7Peace for the South153

Ⅰ Pride and Submission in Defeat：The Balance154

Ⅱ The President＇s Course as Seen by the President158

Ⅲ Early Reconstruction as Seen in the Unionist North175

Ⅳ The Requirements，as the South Saw and Understood Them186

8Massachusetts and South Carolina：An Imaginary Peacemaking214

Ⅰ John Andrew，Intellectual215

Ⅱ Wade Hampton，Aristocrat238

PART TWO：1866 AND AFTER251

9Joint Committee on Reconstruction253

Ⅰ December，1865：The First Assembling of the Postwar Government253

Ⅱ Thaddeus Stevens：The Marginal Politician Comes into His Own260

Ⅲ Mr．Republican：William Pitt Fessenden269

10Johnson＇s Break with the Party274

Ⅰ First Phase，December 4，1865-February 23，1866：The Freedmen＇s Bureau Bill274

Ⅱ Second Phase，February 23-April 6，1866：The Civil Rights Bill298

11The Fourteenth Amendment326

Ⅰ The Nature of the Amendment-making Process326

Ⅱ The First Trial Period：December 5，1865-March 27，1866336

Ⅲ The Owen Plan and the Committee Plan343

Ⅳ The Final Phase：May 1-June 13，1866350

Ⅴ Aftermath and Consequences355

12Campaign Preparations364

Ⅰ Economic Issues367

Ⅱ Patronage377

Ⅲ The National Union Movement394

13Johnson and the Election Campaign of 1866421

Ⅰ The New Orleans Riot422

Ⅱ ＂Swing around the Circle＂428

Ⅲ Press and Public439

14Military Reconstruction，1867448

Ⅰ Prospects for a Moderate Settlement449

Ⅱ Inception and Growth of a Radical Policy455

Ⅲ The Democrats and the Strategy of＂Dead-Lock＂460

Ⅳ The South and＂Masterly Inactivity＂467

Ⅴ How the Reconstruction Acts Were Passed：December，1866，to March，1867473

15Afterthought：Why Impeachment？486

Ⅰ First Impeachment Effort：January-June，1867491

Ⅱ Second Impeachment Effort：July-December，1867494

Ⅲ Third Impeachment Effort：January-February，1868499

Ⅳ The Final Effort：February 21-May 26，1868504

Selected Bibliography，with Notes511

Acknowledgments523

Index525