The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson PB_Gift_Guide She spends her days restoring

She spends her days restoring old books and avoiding the limelight (one awkward tabloid photo was enough

and listen to the fun

a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history

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Art tries to make sense of it all by writing The Pallbearers Club: A Memoir

The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson PB_Gift_Guide She spends her days restoringRobert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing account of the struggle between the great orator Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson. When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, seemingly more progressive than Lincoln, looked like the ideal person to lead the country. He had already cast