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An ';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

President Garfield

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      Publisher Simon & Schuster
      Published 7 September 2024
      ISBN-13 9781982146924
      978-1982146924
      ISBN-10 1982146923

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An ';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

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