{"product_id":"president-garfield-from-radical-to-unifier-9781982146917","title":"President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier","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 president—James 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePresident Garfield\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49415284228439,"sku":"9781982146917","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/president-garfield-from-radical-to-unifier-9781982146917","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}