From canal boy to president, or, The boyhood and manhood of James A. Garfield
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Garfield, James A. 1831-1881 -- Juvenile fiction; Garfield, James A. 1831-1881 -- Fiction; Presidents -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Other titles: From canal boy to president; Boyhood and manhood of James A. Garfield
Description: 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.
Notes: First published in 1881 by John R. Anderson & Co., New York.