September 2011
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Would James Garfield Have Signed the Chinese...
It is one of those classic “What If” questions in history. I heard Candice Millard today at the National Book Festival talk about her new book on James Garfield - arguably the most incredible man ever elected president. Born into poverty, he was a tenured professor by age 23, a university president by 26, a mathematics genius, could recite the entire Aeneid in Latin, rose from a...
