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President Garfield : from radical to unifier / C.W. Goodyear.

by Goodyear, C. W., author.

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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881.

Presidents -- United States -- Biography.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1849-1877.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1877-1881.

9781982146917 (hardcover) :

1982146915 (hardcover)

x, 610 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Prologue -- The wilderness -- The war -- The house -- The presidency -- Epilogue.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

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