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Title: James A. Garfield: Twentieth President of the United States (Encyclopedia of Presidents) by Dee Lilligard ISBN: 0-516-01394-7 Publisher: Children's Press (CT) Pub. Date: 01 March, 1988 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: A juvenile biography about President James A. Garfield
Comment: James Garfield was the second American president to be assassinated but this juvenile biography by Dee Lillegard provides a much better sense of the ideal of public service he personified in his political career. Garfield is one of those presidents that the history books pretty much ignore, mainly because he was only in office about 200 days. Yet, young readers will certainly have a sense for why he was elected and his potential to be an above-average president. The book presents Garfield as a rising star in the Republican Party, who rose from a canal boy to become a general in the early days of the Civil War and then a Congressman, where as chairman of the Appropriations Committee he made his reputation that would see him win the presidency in 1880.

Lillegard actually spends more time on the assassination and the almost three months it took him to die than on the time Garfield ran the government. However, this does pretty much reflect Garfield's legacy. This volume is illustrated with historic photographs, engravings, cartoons, and paintings, depicting not only Garfield's life and political career but also the major events of the time. These are the most impressive illustrations I have seen in one of these volumes, including a poem showing Lady Liberty praying for Garfield's life and several excellent political cartoons of the period. Students looking for information about Garfield will find relatively little about his actual presidency, but much about his political life up to winning the White House.