The Life and Public Career of Gen. James A. Garfield  

The Life and Public Career of Gen. James A. Garfield
President of the United States
Gen. James S. Brisbin
William Ralston Balch
Philadelphia: J. C. McCurdy and Company
Copyright 1880
Black and white frontispiece and illustrations
760 pages

The binding is in good condition, the pages are clean but tanning. There is a name and date 1881 written on the free front end paper. The beveled edge cover is rubbed and shows wear at the corners and spine ends and there is about a one inch split at the front spine hinge. Good. Hardcover.

The record of a wonderful career which, like that of Abraham Lincoln, by native energy and untiring industry, led its hero from obscurity to the foremost position in the American nation. Together with a full account of his election to the presidency, the first months of his administration, his conflict with the "stalwarts," attempted assassination, surgical treatment, the sympathy of the nation, etc. etc. (#00002351)