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President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier

Goodyear, Cw

Paperback

Historical FiguresPresidents & Heads of State19th Century United States History

Publisher Price: $22.99

ISBN10: 1982146923
ISBN13: 9781982146924
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Jul 9 2024
Pages: 624
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
An ambitious, thorough, supremely researched (The Washington Post) biography of the extraordinary, tragic life of America's twentieth president--James Garfield.

In the most comprehensive Garfield biography in almost fifty years (The Wall Street Journal), C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive firebrand and conservative compromiser; Union war hero and founder of the first Department of Education; Supreme Court attorney and abolitionist preacher; mathematician and canalman; crooked election-fixed and clean-government champion; Congressional chieftain and gentleman-farmer; the last president to be born in a log cabin; the second to be assassinated. James Abram Garfield was all these things and more.

Over nearly two decades in Congress during a polarized era--Reconstruction and the Gilded Age--Garfield served as a peacemaker in a Republican Party and America defined by divisions. He was elected to overcome them. He was killed while trying to do so.

President Garfield is American history at its finest. It is about an impoverished boy working his way from the frontier to the Presidency; a progressive statesman, trying to raise a more righteous, peaceful Republic out of the ashes of civil war; the tragically imperfect course of that reformation, and the man himself; a martyr-President, whose death succeeded in nudging the country back to cleaner, calmer politics.

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