...Robert H. Woody Garfield-Hinsdale Letters: Correspondence between James Abram Garfield and Burke Aaron Hinsdale . Edited by Hinsdale Mary L. . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1949 . Pp. 556 . $5.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 545...

...H. Wayne Morgan Garfield: A Biography . By Peskin Allan . Kent : Kent State University Press , 1978 . Pp. 716 . $20.00 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Book Reviews 403 much-cherished black factotums of his youth who happily carried on in the kitchen...

...Allan Peskin Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 President Garfield and the Rating Game: An Evaluation of a Brief Administration Allan Peskin Among the games political historians delight to play, a perennial favorite is one which might be called Rate the President. From time...

... Quarterly terialized. This interesting series of letters, beginning in 1857, reveals much of life in the Western Reserve of Ohio, attitudes toward current political questions, and an intimate and enduring friendship. On the whole, they tend to raise one s estimate of Garfield; it is the reviewer s...

... cherish the memory of those loyal and lov­ ing black men and women do not wish to forget. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PAUL M. GASTON Garfield: A Biography. By Allan Peskin. Kent: Kent State Univer­ sity Press, 1978. Pp. 716. $20.00. James Abram Garfield served as an army officer during the Civil War...

..., and buttressed his favorable appraisal of his central figure with the judgments of many of Polk s contemporaries. Not only does the scholarship appear to be sound, but the book reads well. Numerous quotations from speeches and editorials and personal anecdotes add flavor and insight. W. A. Mabry. Garfield...

... or F.D.R. around which a political narrative could focus. Mr. Cashman, two hundred pages into his text, succumbs to alliterative invec­ tive: [Tjhese are the dud presidents: Grant, a president discredited; Hayes defied; Garfield . . . defunct; Arthur . . . dismissed; Cleveland . . . denied; Harrison...

... of these years Hayes, Garfield, and Harrison only Garfield won a larger number of popular votes than his opponent, and Garfield s margin was less than ten thousand. In short, by the time the 1890 s rolled around, the Republican party was still a minority party, despite the impression given by its occupancy...

.... xi, 344. $5.50. Matthew Simpson was chosen to deliver Lincoln s funeral oration. He was high priest to the Radical Republicans, an adviser to the party, and a friend of Presidents Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Arthur, and Garfield. He rose from the obscurity of an Ohio backwoods village to become a bishop...

... to the Radical Republicans, an adviser to the party, and a friend of Presidents Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Arthur, and Garfield. He rose from the obscurity of an Ohio backwoods village to become a bishop of the Methodist Church. Dr. Clark has throughly combed the sources for materials and has discovered...

... to have kept diaries during their presidencies. James A. Garfield kept one up to the time he was shot. It is now being edited and will be published.) And Hayes does clutter the diary with copies of letters sent out, many of which Williams continues to include. Hayes s diary reveals him as a nationalist...

..., and a friend of Presidents Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Arthur, and Garfield. He rose from the obscurity of an Ohio backwoods village to become a bishop of the Methodist Church. Dr. Clark has throughly combed the sources for materials and has discovered a surprisingly large quantity. The resulting biography...

... defied; Garfield . . . defunct; Arthur . . . dismissed; Cleveland . . . denied; Harrison derided (p. 215). The subtitle of the book reveals that the author hoped to pursue a political, in fact presidential, framework for the book. In that respect not only is the book old-fashioned (recall Thomas C...

... for it. No avowed presidential candidate even attended a major party convention during the nineteeth century, though both Bryan in 1896 and James A. Garfield in 1880 were hardworking unannounced can­ didates, on hand just in case. Once nominated, as George Mayer put it, the aspirant was supposed to behave like...

... a preventive of further dis­ loyal acts. It seems probable that the passage of this section would have failed had the opposition of the minority been lack­ ing. This had a tendency to solidify the majority and the sec­ tion was passed. In the debate Mr. Garfield opposed the meas­ ure. He said...

..., Calhoun, Clay, Garfield, Andrew Johnson, Madison, William Penn, and Webster. At this level of popularity nine literary figures (beginning with Poe, Whitman, and Mark Twain, followed by Emerson, Hawthorne, Howells, Henry James, Melville, and Thoreau) and two philosophers (Jonathan Edwards and William James...

... is based on the sound principle that in a man s home one finds his personality to a far greater extent than in any kind of monument. It is a striking fact that while imposing national memorials have been built for Washington and Lincoln, for Grant, Garfield and Mc­ Kinley, there is no such memorial...

... that neither the Indian s culture, which held labor to be unmanly, nor the black experience, because it caused the slave to labor only under conditions of compulsion, had im­ planted in the respective races the proper respect for the work ethic.17 President James Garfield would also feel compelled to address...

... Adams, James G. Blaine, Henry Ward Beecher, John Bigelow, Andrew Carnegie, William M. Evarts, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Watterson, Carl Schurz, Elihu Root and Theodore Roosevelt, his life offers to a biographer an abundance of rich material. The most important...

... The South Atlantic Quarterly strictures against the presidential synthesis as far back as 1948), but it is almost impossible to bring off. Mr. Cashman maintains that the period be­ gins with Lincoln s assassination, is divided by Garfield s, and ends with McKinley s (p. 1). But are these the really...