Impeachment: An American History

By Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker, Jeffrey A. Engel

Categories: History, Politics & Social Sciences

Impeachment: An American History (2018) is a book by Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker and Jeffrey A. Engel. The four authors recount the impeachment fights over Andrew Johnson after the Civil War, Richard Nixon during Watergate and Bill Clinton in the 1990s. They explain what each episode reveals about the Constitution, Congress and the political limits of presidential power.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “My book of the week is Impeachment, an American History. With impeachment on everyone's mind, this is a clear and intelligent account of the three previous examples in American history and, of course, the current one, by Jon Meacham, Tim Naftali, Peter Baker, and Jeffrey Engel. It will help you make up your own mind as you watch the news unfold.”