President garfield new biography of ronald
President garfield new biography of ronald
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New biographies explore how Garfield and Lincoln dealt with a divided country
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Political pundits often lament the polarization and division that exists among Americans and argue these are unprecedented times.
But a new biography of our 20th president, James A. Garfield, a Northeast Ohio native, reminds us that our national division is nothing new.
The book, "President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier," chronicles a man whose name is familiar, though the details of his life are not.
The book's author, C.W.
Goodyear, paints a vivid picture of a man who was born into poverty in a log cabin in what is now Moreland Hills, and rose to prominence during the Civil War. Garfield spent decades in Congress and was shot less than six months into his first presidential term.
His assassination came as Garfield tried to unify Washington and the nation d