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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Booklist Review     Choice Review     First Chapter Excerpts     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Summary       More by this author     Millard, Candice.     Subjects     Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 -- Assasination.     Guiteau, Charles Julius, 1841-1882.     Bell, Alexander Graham, -- 1847-1922.     Presidents -- United States -- Biography.     Presidents -- Medical care -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Medical instruments and apparatus -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Millard, Candice.       by title:      Destiny of the Repub...         MARC Display

Destiny of the Republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president / Candice Millard. by Millard, Candice. New York : Doubleday, 2011. 2011. Subjects Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 -- Assasination.   Guiteau, Charles Julius, 1841-1882.   Bell, Alexander Graham, -- 1847-1922.   Presidents -- United States -- Biography.   Presidents -- Medical care -- United States -- History -- 19th century.   Medical instruments and apparatus -- United States -- History -- 19th century.   Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Format:  No. of Holds for all sites :  0 Summary:  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. Description:  368 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Edition:  1st ed.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Madison Library District Non-fiction 973.84 Millard, Candice / Destiny Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Madison Library District Non-fiction 973.84 Millard, Candice / Destiny Checked out 05/03/2024 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email Search Results to:

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