Project Gutenberg 2010-11-06 Public domain in the USA. 110 Brown, E. E. (Emma Elizabeth) 1847 Brown, Emma Elizabeth The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield Twentieth President of the United States, Including Full and Accurate Details of His Eventful Administration, Assassination, Last Hours, Death, Etc., Together with Notable Extracts from His Speeches and Letters Reading ease score: 66.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Curtis Weyant, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. "The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield" by E. E. Brown is a historical account written in the late 19th century. The book chronicles the life, achievements, and tragic end of James A. Garfield, the twentieth President of the United States, touching upon his humble beginnings, rise in politics, and the deep national mourning following his assassination. Garfield's journey from a log cabin in Ohio to the presidency serves as an inspiring tale of determination, integrity, and faith. At the start of this detailed biography, the tone is set with expressions of deep national sorrow at Garfield's assassination, evoking a sense of collective mourning. The text introduces Garfield's early life, detailing his birth into a modest family, the loss of his father, and the struggles the family faced, which shaped his character. As readers are taken through his formative years, the narrative highlights his thirst for knowledge and the pivotal experiences that led him on a path to become a teacher and, eventually, a significant political figure. Notable themes such as perseverance, hard work, and the importance of moral conviction are established, setting the stage for Garfield's further accomplishments and the impact he had on American society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34217/34217-h/images/cover.jpg en Presidents -- United States -- Biography Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 E660 Text Browsing: Biographies Browsing: History - American 891804 891794 2024-10-14T11:47:53.297425 2023-09-15T06:02:54.094503 text/html text/html 906302 2021-01-07T03:42:39 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1539023 2021-01-07T03:42:39 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1573870 2024-10-14T11:48:10.268338 application/epub+zip 1585028 2024-10-14T11:47:57.198377 application/epub+zip 430626 2024-10-14T11:47:55.238450 application/epub+zip 1848845 2024-10-14T11:48:18.444330 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1825371 2024-10-14T11:48:06.879361 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 672473 2022-09-15T14:21:50.451078 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 797580 797473 2024-10-14T11:47:51.064413 2023-09-15T06:02:52.070492 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 797539 2021-01-07T03:42:39 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 303955 2021-01-07T03:42:39 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 797536 2021-01-07T03:42:39 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 303905 2021-01-07T03:42:39 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21808 2024-10-14T11:48:18.598283 application/rdf+xml 30608 2024-10-14T11:47:55.372397 image/jpeg 3758 2024-10-14T11:47:55.306389 image/jpeg 1538694 2024-10-14T11:47:53.398402 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia