Written in the months after his death, this memorial life follows James Garfield from a log cabin in Ohio and his boyhood driving canal horses to college teaching, a Union general’s commission, seventeen years in Congress and the presidency. It reprints many of his speeches and ends with the shooting of 1881 and the nation’s long vigil.
A full, admiring nineteenth-century portrait of a president remembered more for his death than his life. Download the free EPUB.