Garfield: A Biography by Allan Peskin - EASTON PRESS for sale in Fairfax, Virginia

Garfield: A Biography by Allan Peskin (copyright 1978). This edition (copyright 1989) is part of The Library of the Presidents from Easton Press. This book, which is currently not available from the publisher, is in excellent condition.
Easton Press volumes are among the most beautiful and durable books available today. Each volume is bound in genuine leather with a hubbed spine and accented with 22-karat gold, and printed on acid-neutral paper. The Smyth-sewn pages have gilded edges and are complemented by a sewn-in satin ribbon page marker and distinctive endleaves
James A. Garfield was a popular hero whose rise from poverty to the White House was living proof of the American dream. Unfortunately, a deranged gunman shattered that dream only three months after Garfield was inaugurated. He would be far better remembered today had his Presidency not been so brief.
Garfield reached prominence during a turbulent period in American politics. In the aftermath of the Civil War, corruption dominated Washington. After every election, the "spoils system" invited victorious politicians to empty federal government offices of their employees in order to install their own supporters. Patronage, rather than policy, was the theme of the most heated political conflicts.
In the midst of this climate of government by greed, Garfield was elected to the Presidency by one of the narrowest margins in history. He was concerned with the "spoils system", but was in no position to change it. Yet he died at its hands. His assassin was a demented job seeker who saw Garfield as the reason he couldn't obtain federal employment.
In his absorbing biography, historian Peskin captures the full measure of an intriguing man. Praised by Publisher's Weekly as "a brilliant and skillful portrait of a man of many parts, and of the political and social landscape of his time," Garfield is an engrossing book.
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