Andy Johnson; The Tailor Who Became President

New York: Ariel Books, 1962. First Edition, First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good. [8], 181, [1] pages. Inscribed by the author on half-title. Cover has some wear and soiling. Milton studied journalism at the University of Iowa. He obtained work on a small newspaper in Texas, and in the next few years, had editorial stints from Des Moines to St. Louis to New York to Chicago. Just after earning a Master of Arts degree from Northwestern University, World War II interrupted his plans. Lomask served four years as a captain in the army. When the war was over, and now in New York City, Lomask worked in advertising and publicity management, while in his free time he wrote magazine articles and plays. By 1950 he felt ready to venture into full-time writing and teaching on his own. Not long after Lomask became self-employed, in addition to college teaching, he began writing books based on his history research, some for adults (Andrew Johnson: President on Trial was a History Book Selection in 1960)-and many for children and youth. Johnson was elected to the federal House of Representatives in 1843, where he served five two-year terms. He became Governor of Tennessee for four years, and was elected by the legislature to the Senate in 1857.Excerpt from a review posted on-line: Andrew Johnson is often dismissed as the vice president who succeeded Lincoln and who was threatened with impeachment. This book helps give him the stature he earned by his rise from the simplest of beginnings to the national limelight. As a boy in North Carolina and Tennessee, his thirst for book learning and interest in what others were thinking led him to choose a line of work where he could quietly listen to men of letters talking, discussing affairs, and so on. His own staunch political opinions took shape. His marriage helped considerably. He won- through his own efforts- a great measure of recognition, and step by step, attained his political goals- though as a person he never reached Lincoln's glory. The treatment even through the unsavory episode of his attack by Congress is sympathetic and throws light on a contradictory period of our history.