President Garfield
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President Garfield by Cw Goodyear
The first comprehensive biography in decades of the extraordinary, tragic life of America's twentieth president--James Garfield. 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. President Garfield>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.SKU | Unavailable |
ISBN 13 | 9781982146917 |
ISBN 10 | 1982146915 |
Title | President Garfield |
Author | Cw Goodyear |
Condition | Unavailable |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Year published | 2023-07-04 |
Number of pages | 624 |
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