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Destiny of the Republic

A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)♥ Add to Wishlist

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      James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man 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 hap-pened 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 con-dition 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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      • Media: Hardcover Book, 352 pages
      • Language: English
      • Publisher: Doubleday Books
      • Edition: Unknown
      • ISBN-10: 0385526261
      • Publication Date: Sep. 20th, 2011
      • ISBN-13: 9780385526265
      • Dimensions: 16.23 x 23.90 x 3.25 cm
      • Shipping Weight: 0.72 kg
      • Categories: Presidents Biography & Heads of State Biography 19th Century United States History
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