Garfield: A BiographyThe definitive biography of America's 20th president, James A. Garfield. Exhaustively researched and skillfully written. Winner of the Ohio Academy of History Award, the Ohioana Book Award in History, and a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year. "Garfield's military career, the congressional years, the Presidency, receive thorough attention and evaluation, and one of the delights of this massive biography is that Peskin writes so well ... This is a brilliant and skillful portrait of a man of many parts, of the political and social landscape of his time."--Publishers Weekly |
Contents
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A Rising Man | 67 |
Colonel Garfield | 86 |
The Hero of the Sandy Valley | 99 |
At the Front | 132 |
Standing by the Old Ship | 329 |
Anno Diaboli | 354 |
In the Bear Garden | 387 |
Retrieving the Irretrievable Calamity | 407 |
Party Pacificator | 420 |
PART THREE | 449 |
The PutUp Job | 451 |
A Busy Pleasant Summer | 482 |
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