It would be honest.
I'm sure he could find quotes to support most of it, though the people who thought Thaddeus Stevens was a nut were hardly likely to hold Andrew Johnson in low regard, so the quotes would have had to have been from different sources.
It wouldn't have looked so pretty.
But what I suspect the author has done here is to manufacture historical record. He is attempting to justify the present by rewriting pieces of the past to make it look like prophesy.
When Joseph Ellis did something similar with the details of his own life, he was vilified here and elsewhere, and all his work called into question. A similar conclusion is called for here, unless the author can cite a source.
Thanks for sticking up for historical accuracy, Tom.
Regards--
Mary Anne
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"So might the American press have spoken"