{"product_id":"president-garfield-9781982146924","title":"President Garfield","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ';ambitious, thorough, supremely researched' (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) biography of the extraordinary, tragic life of America's twentieth presidentJames Garfield.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn ';the most comprehensive Garfield biography in almost fifty years' (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e), 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOver 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","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49415284261207,"sku":"9781982146924","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/president-garfield-9781982146924","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}