President Garfield

From Radical to Unifier

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Pub Date Jul 04 2023 | Archive Date Aug 01 2023

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An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” (The Washington Post) biography of the extraordinary, tragic life of America’s twentieth president—James Garfield.

In “the most comprehensive Garfield biography in almost fifty years” (The Wall Street Journal), 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.

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 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.
An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” (The Washington Post) biography of the extraordinary, tragic life of America’s twentieth president—James Garfield.

In “the most comprehensive Garfield...

Advance Praise

“A masterful portrait of a man of great intellect, patience, and ability who should not be overlooked by history.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 

"This spirited biography gives us the man in full, suggesting the president he might have become." - John Lewis Gaddis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of George Kennan

"Meticulously researched and brilliantly narrated.” - Stanley McChrystal, General, US Army (Retired), Founder & CEO, McChrystal Group

“A masterful portrait of a man of great intellect, patience, and ability who should not be overlooked by history.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 

"This spirited biography gives us the man in full...


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ISBN 9781982146917
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PAGES 624

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