“A man unable to rise to the demands of one of the most challenging moments in our nation's history... Andrew Johnson was a stubborn, racist politician, whose policies alienated not only Radicals, who never controlled Congress, but the vast majority of Republicans.”

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“I also imbibed a way of thinking about the past in which visionaries and underdogs—Tom Paine, Wendell Phillips, Eugene V. Debs, and W. E. B. Du Bois—were as central to the historical drama as presidents and captains of industry, and how a commitment to social justice could infuse one's attitudes towards the past.”

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“hallmarks of Lincoln's greatness were his ability to grow and his willingness to change his mind.”

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