President Garfield : from radical to unifier
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
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x, 610 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Nipomo Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
973.84092 GARFIELD
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973.84092 GARFIELD
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
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Book
Language
English
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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.
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