James A. Garfield
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...
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...
