0723 President Garfield: From Radical to UnifierPresident Garfield is American history at its finest. It is about an impoverished boy working his way from the frontier to the Presidency; a progressive statesman, trying to raise a more righteous, peaceful Republic out of the ashes of civil war; the tragically imperfect course of that reformation, and the man himself; a martyr President, whose death succeeded in nudging the country back to cleaner, calmer politics. 624 pages hcKirkus Reviews *Starred