Garfield : a biography / by Allan Peskin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peskin, Allan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881.

Garfield, James A.

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

United States--Politics and government--1849-1877.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1877-1881.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (737 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the Ohio Academy of History Award, the Ohioana Book Award in History, and a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year. "Garfields 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:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Part One

1. Chaos of Childhood

2. A Very Pulpy Boy

3. On One End of a Log

4. The Decision Must Come

5. A Rising Man

6. Colonel Garfield

7. The Hero of the Sandy Valley

8. At the Front

9. At the Capital

10. Bobbing Around

11. To the River of Death

Part Two

12. Pushing Lincoln

13. Trying to be a Radical

14. ... and not a Fool

15. Ruling Elder

16. Standing by the Old Ship

17. Anno Diaboli

18. In the Bear Garden

19. Retrieving the Irretrievable Calamity

20. Party Pacificator

Part Three

21. The Put-Up Job

22. A Busy, Pleasant Summer

23. Justice and Judgment

24. The Porcupine Administration

25. Strangulatus Pro Republica

Notes

Sources Cited

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [691]-705) and index.

ISBN:

1-61277-001-0

0-585-23563-5

OCLC:

45728450