Can I read James A. Garfield: The American Presidents Series: The 20th President, 1881 on EtoBox?

James A. Garfield: The American Presidents Series: The 20th President, 1881 by Ira Rutkow; Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is James A. Garfield: The American Presidents Series: The 20th President, 1881 about?

The ambitious self-made man who reached the pinnacle of American politicsonly 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 congressmanall by the age of thirty-two. Embodying the strive-and-succeed spirit that captured the imagination of Americans in his time, he was elected president in 1880. It is no surprise that one of his biographers was Horatio Alger. Garfield's term in office, however, was cut tragically short. Just four months into his presidency, a would-be assassin approached Garfield at the Washington, D.C., railroad station and fired a single shot into his back. Garfield's bad luck was to have his fate placed in the care of arrogant physicians who did not accept the new theory of antisepsis. Probing the wound with unwashed and occasionally manure-laden hands, Garfield's doctors introduced terrible infections and brought about his death two months later. Ira Rutkow, a surgeon and historian, offers an insightful portrait of Garfield and an unsparing narrati

Who reads James A. Garfield: The American Presidents Series: The 20th President, 1881?

Author

Ira Rutkow; Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Publisher

Times Books, Henry Holt and Company

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805069501

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.85 / 5 (262 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14