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A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Anchor Books
June 2012
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Featuring: James Garfield
398 pages ISBN: 0767929713 EAN: 9780767929714 Kindle: B004J4X33O Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Biography
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 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 brokers 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 wounded president at the center of a bitter,
behind-the-scenes struggle for power. Examining the medical
reform spurred by Garfield's unsanitary medical treatment,
and reflecting on the surprising political reform brought on
by his former political enemy Senator Roscoe Conkling,
Destiny of the Republic passionately brings President
Garfield's unknown-but-widely-felt legacy into focus.
Winner of the 2012 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
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