The Age of President Garfield was an exciting age as it featured
the music of John Philip Sousa's marching bands, the new dime
novels, captains of industry such as John D Rockefeller, legendary
cowboys of the Old West, the Indian Wars, and the expansion of
America's interest in empire building abroad. James A Garfield rose
from birth in a log cabin in Ohio, to work as a canal boy, earned
an education at Ceauga Academy, Western Reserve Eclectic Institute,
and graduated from Williams College in 1856. He became president of
Western Reserve in 1857, studied law, married Lucretia Randolph,
and was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1859. During the Civil War,
he became a hero, earned the rank of Major General and assisted
General William S Rosecrans as his Chief of Staff. Elected to the
U.S. House of Representatives in 1862, he was a Radical Republican
seeking to redeem the South and protect the freedmen. Selected for
the U.S. Senate in 1880, then nominated for the U.S. Presidency in
Chicago also in 1880, he won the election and became the 20th U.S.
President with Chester A Arthur as his Vice President. This book is
a rich tapestry filled with characters, events, institutions, and
causes dominating the era. Roscoe Conkling, James G Blaine, Andrew
Carnegie, King Kalakaua of Hawaii, Queen Victoria, and Gilbert and
Sullivan are a few of the parallel characters, and the creation of
the United States Geological Survey, expansion of the Smithsonian
and the Library of Congress, and the American chapter of the Red
Cross are some of the enduring legacies. Garfield's era saw the
invention of the Bessemer steel process and the Otis elevator, the
coming of the street trolley and gas lighting, immigrants pouring
into Industrialising America and the formation of workers' unions.
Garfield's presidency was at the height of the Gilded Age, one of
the most fascinating moments in all of American history. This book
must be read to understand how America moved from frontier to
empire. A sophisticated and nuanced treatment of President James A
Garfield.
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