PRESIDENT GARFIELD: From Radical to Unifier. By C.W. Goodyear. Simon & Schuster. 624 pages. $35. Writing a book about James Garfield is no easy task. The 20th president who served the second shortest ...

While the historical presence of James A. Garfield in Northeast Ohio, particularly Lake County, remains recognizable, the spirit of the 20th president of the United States continues to gain evolving ...

C.W. Goodyear’s excellent new biography President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier, offers an extensive study of an academic, general, and statesman whose death has overshadowed his accomplishments ...

A recently released biography of assassinated 19th-century President James Garfield is not only an extraordinarily good read but showcases public-service virtues the public should rediscover. Garfield ...

When ghostwriter-turned-author Charlie Goodyear began looking about for a compelling subject in his own right, he turned to historical periods that he thought would illuminate contemporary life, ...

President James A. Garfield was not from Cincinnati. He was from Ohio, though – born in the former Orange Township in Cuyahoga County in 1831. Yet, he has a statue in Piatt Park (formerly Garfield ...

James A. Garfield National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located in Mentor, Ohio. The site preserves the property associated with the 20th President of the United States, ...

correctionA previous version of this article misstated the inventor of the world’s first metal detector. It was Alexander Graham Bell, not Thomas Edison. This article has been corrected. It’s not ...