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090 $aE687$b.A65 2003
100 1 $aAckerman, Kenneth D.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87841432
245 10 $aDark horse :$bthe surprise election and political murder of President James A. Garfield /$cKenneth D. Ackerman.
260 $aNew York :$bCarroll & Graf Publishers,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $a551 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 457-467) and index.
505 00 $tThe Feud, April 1866 -- $gI.$tThe Great Contest, 1880 -- $g1.$tChicago -- $g2.$tThe Hero -- $g3.$tBosses -- $g4.$tFirst Volley -- $g5.$tThe Break -- $g6.$tCompromise -- $g7.$tChance of a Lifetime -- $gII.$tCandidate -- $g8.$tThe Bargain -- $g9.$tThe Narrowest Margin -- $gIII.$tPresident-Elect -- $g10.$tGarfield "Doesn't Sleep Excellently Well" -- $gIV.$tPresident -- $g11.$tThe Appointment -- $g12.$tThe Senate -- $g13.$tStalwart of the Stalwarts -- $gV.$tCalamity -- $g14.$tBulletins -- $g15.$tArthur.
520 1 $a"In post-Civil War America, politics was a brutal sport played with blunt rules. Yet the era produced wide public excitement and high voter participation, as well as our last log cabin-born president. James Garfield's 1880 dark horse campaign after the longest-ever Republican nominating process (thirty-six convention ballots), his victory in the closest-ever popular vote for president (by a margin of only 7,018) votes out of more than nine million cast), his struggle against bitterly feuding factions once elected, and the public's response to its violent climax produce the most dramatic presidential odyssey of the Gilded Age - and among the most momentous in our nation's history." "Capitol Hill veteran Kenneth D. Ackerman re-creates an American political landscape where fierce battles for power unfolded against a chivalrous code of honor in a country struggling to emerge from the long shadow of recent war. He casts familiar Civil War figures like Ulysses S. Grant and Winfield Scott Hancock in unfamiliar roles as politicos alongside feuding machine bosses like senators Roscoe Conkling and James G. Blaine and backroom string-puller Chester A. Arthur, Garfield's unlikely vice-presidential running mate. The journey through political backrooms, dazzling convention floors, and intrigue-filled congressional and White House chambers, reveals the era's decency and humanity as well as the sharp partisanship that exploded in the pistol shots of assassin Charles Guiteau, the weak-minded political camp follower and patronage seeker eager to replace the elected commander-in-chief with one of his own choosing." "Garfield's path from a seat in the House of Representatives to the White House to martyred hero changed the tone of politics for generations to come. His assassination prompted leaders to recoil at their excesses and brought shocked Americans together with a dignity and grace that have long held the nation together in crisis. Kenneth D. Ackerman tells this overlooked story in a historical page-turner that will enthrall aficionados of presidential lives and all lovers of American history."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aGarfield, James A.$q(James Abram),$d1831-1881.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50015182
600 10 $aGarfield, James A.$q(James Abram),$d1831-1881$xAssassination.
600 10 $aGuiteau, Charles J.$q(Charles Julius),$d1841-1882.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50018818
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1881-1885.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140449
650 0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$xElection$y1880.
650 0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85106470
852 00 $bglx$hE687$i.A65 2003g