Author: Russell H. ConwellPublisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield, Twentieth President of the United States
Author: Russell H. ConwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield, Including an Account of His Assassination, Lingering Pain, Death, and Burial
Author: Russell H. ConwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield, Including an Account of His Assassination, Lingering Pain, Death, and Burial...
Author: Russell Herman ConwellPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781314967975
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
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The Life, Speeches and Public Services of Gen. James A. Garfield of Ohio
Author: Russell H. ConwellThe Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield
Author: Russell H. ConwellPublisher:
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Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield, Including an Account of His Assassination, Lingering Pain, Death, and Burial
Author: Russell H. ConwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
James A. Garfield
Author: Ira RutkowPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466827920
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
Constructing American Lives
Author: Scott E. CasperPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469649047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's identity. In an age predating radio and television, biography was not simply a genre of writing, says Scott Casper; it was the medium that allowed people to learn about public figures and peer into the lives of strangers. In this pioneering study, Casper examines how Americans wrote, published, and read biographies and how their conceptions of the genre changed over the course of a century. Campaign biographies, memoirs of pious women, patriotic narratives of eminent statesmen, "mug books" that collected the lives of ordinary midwestern farmers--all were labeled "biography," however disparate their contents and the contexts of their creation, publication, and dissemination. Analyzing debates over how these diverse biographies should be written and read, Casper reveals larger disputes over the meaning of character, the definition of American history, and the place of American literary practices in a transatlantic world of letters. As much a personal experience as a literary genre, biography helped Americans imagine their own lives as well as the ones about which they wrote and read.
The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James A. Garfield
Author: Russell H. ConwellThe Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James a Garfield
Author: Russell H. ConwellPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365027881
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Excerpt from The Life, Speeches, and Public Services of James a Garfield: Twentieth President of the United States; Including an Account of His Assassination, Lingering Pain, Death, and Burial MY dear colonel, In answer to your letter, I regret very much that I have not time to write an extended introduction to your biography of General Garfield, which, now that his noble life is ended, I am glad to know is to be revised and again published. I cordially furnish you, however, my remarks at the dinner, last July, of the alumni of Williams College. But no tribute can do justice either to him or to the deep and loving sentiment of admiration and sym pathy in which he is held in the hearts of the peo ple. The best tribute is in the simple story of his heroic and ascending life and character. The youth of America will read it, and be reminded that they, too, can make their lives sublime. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.