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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827259603321

Autore

Peskin Allan

Titolo

Garfield : a biography / / by Allan Peskin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kent, Ohio, : Kent State University Press, c1999

ISBN

1-61277-001-0

0-585-23563-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (737 p.)

Disciplina

973.8/4/092

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Soggetti

Presidents - United States

United States Politics and government 1849-1877

United States Politics and government 1877-1881

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [691]-705) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One -- 1. Chaos of Childhood -- 2. A Very Pulpy Boy -- 3. On One End of a Log -- 4. The Decision Must Come -- 5. A Rising Man -- 6. Colonel Garfield -- 7. The Hero of the Sandy Valley -- 8. At the Front -- 9. At the Capital -- 10. Bobbing Around -- 11. To the River of Death -- Part Two -- 12. Pushing Lincoln -- 13. Trying to be a Radical -- 14. ... and not a Fool -- 15. Ruling Elder -- 16. Standing by the Old Ship -- 17. Anno Diaboli -- 18. In the Bear Garden -- 19. Retrieving the Irretrievable Calamity -- 20. Party Pacificator -- Part Three -- 21. The Put-Up Job -- 22. A Busy, Pleasant Summer -- 23. Justice and Judgment -- 24. The Porcupine Administration -- 25. Strangulatus Pro Republica -- Notes -- Sources Cited -- Index.