President Garfield : From Radical to Unifier by C.w. Goodyear (2023, Hardcover) online kaufen

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PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-101982146915

ISBN-139781982146917

eBay Product ID (ePID)20058375457

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Book TitlePresident Garfield : from Radical to Unifier

Number of Pages624 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicUnited States / 19th Century, Presidents & Heads of State, Historical

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorC.W. Goodyear

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.7 in

Item Weight26.9 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-300874

ReviewsMr. Goodyear has given us an eloquent and moving biography of our 20th president. Born and raised in rural poverty, James Garfield raised himself up by his bootstraps, fought as a general in the Civil War, rose to leadership in postwar Congresses, challenged the tawdry politics of the Gilded Age, and suffered martyrdom by assassination that launched the beginnings of the end of the system that killed him. Goodyear's lucid prose disentangles the complexities and ambiguities of this story., Long a two-dimensional figure relegated to fading prints or a single afternoon in high school history, James Garfield, an American President known most for his death, is brought to life and sharply into focus in President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier. Meticulously researched and brilliantly narrated, Goodyear's account weaves together a fascinating figure of towering talents with the extraordinary times in which he lived., The most comprehensive Garfield biography in almost 50 years, and the most readable ever. Mr. Goodyear is a stylish and energetic writer, whose passion for his subject is reminiscent of a youthful Edmund Morris in The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt ., This is an extremely timely book. In an era polarized like our own, James Garfield went from being a firebrand to an engineer of compromise and healing. Goodyear chronicles his evolution in a meticulously researched reappraisal.

SynopsisAn "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.

LC Classification NumberE687.G66 2023