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This is an “ambitious, thorough, and well-researched” (Washington Post) biography of the extraordinary and tragic life of James Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States.
In “the most comprehensive biography of Garfield in nearly fifty years” (The Wall Street Journal), CW Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans to win the presidency. Progressive firebrand and conservative compromiser; Union war hero, founder of the First Department of Education; Supreme Court lawyer and abolitionist preacher; mathematician and canal administrator; champion of dishonest election fixing and clean government; Congressional chief and gentleman farmer; the last president to be born in a log cabin; the second to be assassinated. James Abram Garfield was all of these things and more.
During his nearly two decades in Congress, during a polarizing era—Reconstruction and the Gilded Age—Garfield served as a peacemaker among Republicans and a divided America. He was chosen to overcome these difficulties. He was killed while trying to do so.
President Garfield is the best part of American history. It tells the story of a poor boy who fought his way from the frontier to the presidency; of a progressive statesman who tried to build a more just and peaceful republic out of the ashes of a civil war; of the tragically imperfect process of that reform, and of this The man himself; a martyr president whose death successfully propelled the country back to cleaner, calmer politics.
From the publisher
ASIN : B0BHTMPJTX
Publisher : Simon & Schuster (July 4, 2023)
Publication date : July 4, 2023
Language : English
File size : 11865 KB
Text to Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Support
Enhanced typography : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 618 pages
Customers say
Customers find the biography fascinating and elucidating. They find it well-researched, well-written, and informative. The author is skillful and breathes life into a man only known in old photographs. Readers enjoy the author’s style and humor, finding it witty and lyrical. Overall, they consider the book worth reading and recommending.
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