Description: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The extraordinary account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from the bestselling author of The River of Doubt. James Abram 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, a renowned congressman, and a reluctant presidential candidate who took on the nation's corrupt political establishment. But four months after Garfield's inauguration in 1881, he was shot in the back by a deranged office-seeker named Charles Guiteau. Garfield survived the attack, but become the object of bitter, behind-the-scenes struggles for power—over his administration, over the nation's future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic brings alive a forgotten chapter of U.S. history.
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Brand: by Candice Millard (Author)
Book Title: Destiny of the Republic : a Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Item Length: 8in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 5.1in
Author: Candice Millard
Format: Trade Paperback
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: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Medical, History, Social Science, Political Science
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
