The destiny of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine, and the murder of a president
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- ISBN: 0385526261
- ISBN: 9780385526265
- Physical Description x, 339 pages : illustrations
- Edition 1st ed.
- Publisher New York ; Doubleday, [2011]
- Copyright ©2011
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (313-323) and index. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 33.00 |
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Destiny of the Republic : A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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Destiny of the Republic : A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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 hapÂpened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in turÂmoil. 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 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.