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Bezig met laden... From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield (1881)door Horatio Alger Jr.
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. It would have been mildly interesting - the detailed biography of a president I didn't know much about - except that Alger had to rearrange the details to make it his standard story. So the poor boy with no one in the world except his mother and elder brother...suddenly, several chapters later, had an uncle and cousin (and presumably an aunt) living down the road. They weren't rich, but neither was Garfield on his own with no one to lend a hand. So interesting - but I can't trust Alger's descriptions of anything, including the global mourning for Garfield. If it's true, he was something amazing at the time and it's surprising how much he's been forgotten - or perhaps not all that surprising, with his very short (cut short) tenure as President. I'm not quite interested enough to seek out a better biography, but I'll grab one if I come across it. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
A fictionalized biography of James Garfield from his log cabin youth in Ohio through his career as educator and service as Civil War general to his 1881 election as twentieth President of the United States, an office he held for only four months before his assassination. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)973.84History and Geography North America United States 1865-1901 James GarfieldLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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