Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
of Candice Millard
Description
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back. But the shot didnât kill Garfield. The drama of what hapÂpened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in turÂmoil. The unhinged assassinâs half-delivered strike shattered the fragile national mood of a country so recently fractured by civil war, and left the wounded president as the object of a bitter behind-the-scenes struggle for powerâover his administration, over the nationâs future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. A team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. As his conÂdition worsened, Garfield received help: Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, worked around the clock to invent a new device capable of finding the bullet. Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic will stand alongside The Devil in the White City and The Professor and the Madman as a classic of narrative history.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 339 pages
- Publisher Doubleday
- Publication Date September 20th 2011
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780385526265
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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