Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard ISBN 9780385535007 instant download

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard ISBN 9780385535007 instant download

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. Thedrama of what hap­pened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation intur­moil. 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 Republicwill stand alongsideThe Devil in the White CityandThe Professor and the Madmanas a classic of narrative history.