Overview
The first comprehensive biography in decades of the extraordinary, tragic life of America's twentieth president--James Garfield.In this magisterial biography, 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-fixer 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 President 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Cw Goodyear ,
Fred Sanders
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Audio
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 4.80cm
, Length: 14.50cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9781797158808
ISBN 10: 1797158805
Publication Date: 04 July 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""An eloquent and moving biography of our twentieth President."" -- ""James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author"""
Author Information
C.W. Goodyear is an author and historian based in Washington, DC. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but grew up abroad before graduating from Yale University. Fred Sanders (PhD, Graduate Theological Union) is professor of theology in the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University in La Mirada, California. He is author of numerous books including The Triune God in the New Studies in Dogmatics series; The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything; and Dr. Doctrines' Christian Comix. He is coeditor of Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective: An Introductory Christology and Retrieving Eternal Generation. Fred is a core participant in the Theological Engagement with California's Culture Project and a popular blogger at The Scriptorium Daily.
