Garfield: A BiographyKent State University Press, 1978 - 716 стор. The definitive biography of America's 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. "Garfield's 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 |
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... Chase , Secre- tary of the Treasury . Chase too was indignant that the army was so overstocked with Democratic generals while good Republicans like Garfield went unrewarded . He took up Garfield's cause , virtually adopting the younger ...
... Chase , Secre- tary of the Treasury . Chase too was indignant that the army was so overstocked with Democratic generals while good Republicans like Garfield went unrewarded . He took up Garfield's cause , virtually adopting the younger ...
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... Chase , Garfield hastened to assure her that Kate " has a good form but not a pretty face , its beauty being marred by a nose slightly inclined to pug . " Lucretia need not have worried . Kate Chase was after bigger game than an obscure ...
... Chase , Garfield hastened to assure her that Kate " has a good form but not a pretty face , its beauty being marred by a nose slightly inclined to pug . " Lucretia need not have worried . Kate Chase was after bigger game than an obscure ...
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... Chase the next president . Garfield naturally sympathized with Chase's aspirations . The Treasury Secretary was not only Gar- field's close personal friend ( insofar as Chase had any friends ) , but he also gave allegiance to Garfield's ...
... Chase the next president . Garfield naturally sympathized with Chase's aspirations . The Treasury Secretary was not only Gar- field's close personal friend ( insofar as Chase had any friends ) , but he also gave allegiance to Garfield's ...
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