Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a Presid

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 didn't kill Garfield. The drama of what happened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in tur-moil. The unhinged assassin's 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 power--over his administration, over the nation's future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. A team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. As his condition 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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Book Title: Destiny of the Republic : a Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

Item Length: 9.5in

Item Height: 1.2in

Item Width: 6.3in

Author: Candice Millard

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Topic: Murder / General, United States / 19th Century, Instruments & Supplies, Social History, General, Presidents & Heads of State, Sociology / Social Theory, United States / General, Science & Technology

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication Year: 2011

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Medical, History, Social Science, Political Science

Item Weight: 25.6 Oz

Number of Pages: 352 Pages