{"product_id":"president-garfield-from-radical-to-unifier","title":"President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn \"ambitious, thorough, supremely researched\" (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) biography of the extraordinary, tragic life of America's twentieth president--James Garfield.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"the most comprehensive Garfield biography in almost fifty years\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e), 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePresident Garfield\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1982146923\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781982146924\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Goodyear, Cw\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jul 2024)","offer_id":46079831605445,"sku":"9781982146924","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781982146924.jpg?v=1776032104","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/president-garfield-from-radical-to-unifier","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}