Showing The Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Medicine, Madness and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

Paperback. Pub Date: June. 2012 Pages: 432 Publisher: the Anchor The extraordinary New York Times-bestselling account of James Garfield's Rise from POVERTY to the American Presidency. And the dramatic History of HIS assassination and legacy FROM bestselling author of of The River of Doubt. Candice Millard. For a man forced into the presidency. the legacy of James Garfield extended far beyond his lifetime. and Destiny of the Republic revisits his meteoric rise within the military and government with meticulous research and intimate focus. Garfield was a passionate advocate of freed slaves. a reformer at odds with Republican power okers and machine politics. a devoted father. and a spellbinding speech-giver. Four months after taking office he was shot twice by an unhinged office-seeker. Charles Guiteau. and a nation already recently fractured by war shattered. leaving the woun...