Garfield

The definitive biography of Americas 20th president James A. Garfield. Exhaustively researched and skillfully written. Winner of the Ohio Academy of History Award the Ohioana Book Award in History and a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year. Garfields military career the congressional years the Presidency receive thorough attention and evaluation and one of the delights of this massive biography is that Peskin writes so well This is a brilliant and skillful portrait of a man of many parts of the political and social landscape of his time.Publishers Weekly