David Stewart, author of Impeached: The Trial of Andrew Johnson, as well as several other books dealing with American history, will speak to BMAV members and friends about this difficult period of our history and the fight for Lincoln’s legacy. Join us for refreshments and socializing at 3:30. The program will start promptly at 4. Please RSVP. Space is limited.
The Washington Post reviewed Impeached as “the fullest recounting we have of the high politics of that immediate post-Civil War period. As the author astutely tells us, the Constitution’s impeachment clauses provide a complex legal remedy for enmity between Congress and the president.”
Experienced in constitutional litigation, Stewart clerked for U. S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, argued cases before the Supreme Court, and wrote the monthly Supreme Court Report for the American Bar Association Journal. He served as the president of the Washington Independent Review of Books from its founding in 2011 until this year.
Stewart is a Maryland resident and the author of three other works of history (The Summer of 1787, American Emperor, and Madison's Gift), and three historical mysteries, The Babe Ruth Deception, The Wilson Deception and The Lincoln Deception. He's won the Washington Writing Award and several history-writing prizes.