President Garfield
From Radical to Unifier
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description: x, 610 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"In this magisterial biography, 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-fixer 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 President to overcome them. He was killed while trying to do so"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9781982146917
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Garfield, James A. | Ballentine Indoors | Biography | In |
BIOGRAPHY Garfield, James | St. Andrews Indoors | New, Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-481) and index.