President Garfield

Author : Candice Millard
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525492849

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Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard Pdf

Candice Millard chronicles the life of President James A. Garfield, from his upbringing to his untimely death. Garfield's short time in office was devoted to cleaning up the corruption that was rife in a country still reeling from the Civil War. However, everything changed when Garfield was shot in the back by a disgruntled office worker. While the president's health slowly declined, a power struggle erupted over control of the administration, and the country's fate hung in the balance.

Author : Candice Millard
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780767929714

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Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The extraordinary account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from the bestselling author of The River of Doubt. "Crisp, concise and revealing history.... A fresh narrative that plumbs some of the most dramatic days in U.S. presidential history." —The Washington Post James Abram Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, a renowned congressman, and a reluctant presidential candidate who took on the nation's corrupt political establishment. But four months after Garfield's inauguration in 1881, he was shot in the back by a deranged office-seeker named Charles Guiteau. Garfield survived the attack, but become the object of bitter, behind-the-scenes struggles for power—over his administration, over the nation's future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic brings alive a forgotten chapter of U.S. history. Look for Candice Millard’s latest book, River of the Gods.

Author : Ruth Tenzer Feldman
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822513986

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James Garfield by Ruth Tenzer Feldman Pdf

Describes the life, career, and accomplishments of the twentieth president of the United States.

Author : Allan Peskin
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873382102

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Garfield by Allan Peskin Pdf

This biography evaluates and examines James A. Garfield's military career, the congressional years and the Presidency. Allan Perkins has had access to the Garfield and other papers, as well as drawing upon other resources of the Reconstruction Era.

Author : Gail Jarrow
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781684378142

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Ambushed! by Gail Jarrow Pdf

Winner of the 2022 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award This thrilling title for young readers blends science, history, and medical mysteries to tell the story of the assassination and ultimately horrible death of President James Garfield. James Abram Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was assassinated when he was shot by Charles Guiteau in July 1881, less than four months after he was elected president. But Garfield didn't actually die until 80 days later. In this page-turner, award-winning author Gail Jarrow delves into the fascinating story of the relationship between Garfield and Guiteau, and relates the gruesome details of Garfield's slow and agonizing death. She reveals medical mistakes made in the aftermath of Garfield's assassination, including the faulty diagnoses and outdated treatments that led to the president's demise. This gripping blend of science, history, and mystery—the latest title in the Medical Fiascoes series—is nonfiction for kids at its best: exciting and relevant and packed with plenty of villains and horrifying facts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Medicine
ISBN : MINN:30000010441842

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The Assassination of President Garfield by Anonim Pdf

Author : CW Goodyear
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982146931

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President Garfield by CW Goodyear Pdf

An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” (The Washington Post) biography of the extraordinary, tragic life of America’s twentieth president—James Garfield. In “the most comprehensive Garfield biography in almost fifty years” (The Wall Street Journal), 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. 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 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.

Author : Ira Rutkow
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466827929

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James A. Garfield by Ira Rutkow Pdf

The ambitious self-made man who reached the pinnacle of American politics—only to be felled by an assassin's bullet and to die at the hands of his doctors James A. Garfield was one of the Republican Party's leading lights in the years following the Civil War. Born in a log cabin, he rose to become a college president, Union Army general, and congressman—all by the age of thirty-two. Embodying the strive-and-succeed spirit that captured the imagination of Americans in his time, he was elected president in 1880. It is no surprise that one of his biographers was Horatio Alger. Garfield's term in office, however, was cut tragically short. Just four months into his presidency, a would-be assassin approached Garfield at the Washington, D.C., railroad station and fired a single shot into his back. Garfield's bad luck was to have his fate placed in the care of arrogant physicians who did not accept the new theory of antisepsis. Probing the wound with unwashed and occasionally manure-laden hands, Garfield's doctors introduced terrible infections and brought about his death two months later. Ira Rutkow, a surgeon and historian, offers an insightful portrait of Garfield and an unsparing narrative of the medical crisis that defined and destroyed his presidency. For all his youthful ambition, the only mark Garfield would make on the office would be one of wasted promise.

Author : Robert Kingsbury
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 082393540X

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The Assassination of James A. Garfield by Robert Kingsbury Pdf

Examines one of America's lesser-known presidents, his assassination, and the life of Charles Guiteau, who killed him.

Author : Kenneth D. Ackerman
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786713968

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Dark Horse by Kenneth D. Ackerman Pdf

A close-up look at post-Civil War American politics describes the narrow election of President James A. Garfield, his murder by assassin Charles Guiteau, and the machinations of the political power-brokers of the era. Reprint.

Author : Megan M. Gunderson
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781098212148

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James A. Garfield by Megan M. Gunderson Pdf

This biography introduces readers to James A. Garfield including his early political career and key events from Garfield's administration including his surprise nomination, the Star Route Scandal, and his assassination by Charles Guiteau. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : John Clark Ridpath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112059250081

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The Life and Work of James A. Garfield by John Clark Ridpath Pdf

Author : Jeff C. Young
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0766051005

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James A. Garfield by Jeff C. Young Pdf

A biography of the twentieth president of the United States, whose term was cut short when he was fatally wounded a few months after his inauguration. Includes Internet links to Web sites, source documents, and photographs related to James Garfield.

Author : John Clark Ridpath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
ISBN : HARVARD:HX2Q7K

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The Life and Work of James A. Garfield ... by John Clark Ridpath Pdf

Author : Fred Rosen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612347684

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Murdering the President by Fred Rosen Pdf

Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. But contrary to what is written in most history books, Garfield didn’t linger and die. He survived. Alexander Graham Bell raced against time to invent the world’s first metal detector to locate the bullet in Garfield’s body so that doctors could safely operate. Despite Bell’s efforts to save Garfield, however, and as never before fully revealed, the interventions of Garfield’s friend and doctor, Dr. D. W. Bliss, brought about the demise of the nation’s twentieth president. But why would a medical doctor engage in such monstrous behavior? Did politics, petty jealousy, or failed aspirations spark the fire inside Bliss that led him down the path of homicide? Rosen proves how depraved indifference to human life—second-degree murder—rather than ineptitude led to Garfield’s drawn-out and painful death. Now, more than one hundred years later, historian and homicide investigator Fred Rosen reveals through newly accessed documents and Bell’s own correspondence the long list of Bliss’s criminal acts and malevolent motives that led to his murder of the president.