i think this is a perfect place for somebody to come and write the book about james garfield, to talk and to see all of these great faces and to see all these people who really are interested in garfield and want to learn more. so please welcome a native of new orleans, a graduate of yale, and his first biography just published, president garfield, a radical unifier, a c w goodyear, and so much. all right. well, thank you, guys much for being here. i should echo todd's kind words that this is the perfect for me to come visit. it's actually with members of the garfield here, members of my own family kindly enough and this being the last stage of my ohio book tour, it seemed as though this was just a perfect case of things coming full circle. so i couldn't have dreamed dreamt of a better location. i also want to make it clear that the book says c w goodyear i've always gone by charlie and so, so militantly, so so we're going to have plenty of time for questions at the very end of the cw thing, i was advised on good authority that charlie does not good on a book cover. so. so i went with

the just these ransoms of committee power because all garfield wants to do is just to study and solve public problems. whereas he wants to let james blaine take the lead of marshaling the house and keeping legislation flowing so he garfield over the course of the reconstruction, just great pragmatic figure who also, i'd argue, one of the most interesting people that time. and he comes of a very famous supreme court lawyer. he does all of this writing and mathematical work on the side, but he becomes defined as somebody who, in the interest of keeping our institutions functioning, of continuing to hold republican power over the house, he becomes somebody who has the reputation of being a moderate and not just a moderate, inconsistent moderate, somebody who seemed to define their positions, an issue based on what everybody else in the room had and what he could do to split the difference between everybody else's views. he was somebody who believed in theory, in enforcing equality of race throughout the country, but who also that the federal government couldn't exceed constitutional limits in order to enforce those issues. he railed

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our friend on the left, spencer munson, neighbor of james garfield, he was playing in the outfield when the ball was hit deep. he caught it lovely catch. and as he was going to throw the ball into the infield, people, a bone snap, his elbow dislocated. i think adam playing vintage baseball i can maybe offer an explanation. they weren't good on calisthenics and stretching and everything before. a game. i can see how such freak injuries have occurred, especially after having an arm and having a rotator cuff surgery a couple of years ago. i know my arm needs a lot of warm up before a game. these the two figures in the center in, the right, william chamberlain and bill bell to trail in another game, bill chamberlain for the knoxville's steps up to the plate hits a massive shot out to the outfield samuel bell to trail the mayor son gets under it he's ready to catch it loses in the sun. i can also attest to this happening and the ball just went right into his forehead and he dropped like beef on the ground unconscious and had to be carried from the field. i'm saying baseball is temporarily ta

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