Destiny Of The Republic: A Tale Of Madness, Medicine And The Murder Of A President
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ISBN : 9780385526265
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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 happened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in turmoil. 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.
Specifications of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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Author | Candice Millard |
Binding | Hardcover |
Language | English |
Edition | 1st |
ISBN-10 | 0385526261 |
ISBN-13 | 9780385526265 |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Number Of Pages | 368 |
Publication Date | 2011-09-20 |
DIMENSIONS | |
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Height | 9.6 inch. |
Length | 6.4 inch. |
Width | 1.4 inch. |
Weight | 1.68 pounds. |
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