The impeachment of Abraham Lincoln (2012)

Lincoln survives the assassination attempt and faces impeachment amid the politics of Reconstruction. Carter makes that continued presidency a constitutional struggle rather than an automatic guarantee of a better settlement. Abigail Canner, a young Black woman working with his defence lawyers, provides a perspective beyond the great man's decisions. Choose this substantial legal thriller for the institutions, ambitions and racial exclusions that would still shape the work after one famous death was prevented.