Destiny of the republic: a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president
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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.
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9780385526265
9780767929714
9780385535007
9780307939685
9780767929714
9780385535007
9780307939685
Table of Contents
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Chosen
The scientific spirit
Providence
"A beam in darkness"
God's minute man
Bleak mountain
Hand and soul
Real Brutuses and Bolingbrokes
Brains, flesh, and blood
Casus belli
The dark dreams of presidents
"A desperate deed"
"Thank God it is all over"
"It's true"
All evil consequences
Blood-guilty
Neither death nor life
One nation
"Keep heart"
On a mountaintop, alone
Terror, hope, and despair
After all
All the angels of the universe
Forever and forever more.
Subjects
Subjects
Bell, Alexander Graham, -- 1847-1922
Biography & Autobiography
Garfield, James A. -- (James Abram), -- 1831-1881 -- Assassination
Guiteau, Charles J. -- (Charles Julius), -- 1841-1882
History
Medical instruments and apparatus -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Nonfiction
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Power (Social sciences) -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Presidents -- Medical care -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Presidents -- United States -- Biography
United States -- Politics and government -- 1881-1885
Biography & Autobiography
Garfield, James A. -- (James Abram), -- 1831-1881 -- Assassination
Guiteau, Charles J. -- (Charles Julius), -- 1841-1882
History
Medical instruments and apparatus -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Nonfiction
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Power (Social sciences) -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Presidents -- Medical care -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Presidents -- United States -- Biography
United States -- Politics and government -- 1881-1885
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