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Book SynopsisAn ';ambitious, thorough, supremely researched' (The Washington Post) biography of the extraordinary, tragic life of America's twentieth presidentJames 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 eraReconstruction and the Gilded AgeGarfield served as a peacemaker in a Republican Party and America defined b
