TY  - BOOK
AU  - Millard,Candice
TI  - Destiny of the republic: a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president 
SN  - 9780385526265
AV  - E687.9 .M55 2011
U1  - 973.8/4092 22
PY  - 0000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Doubleday
KW  - Garfield, James A.
KW  - Guiteau, Charles J.
KW  - Bell, Alexander Graham,
KW  - Guiteau, Charles Julius,
KW  - Bliss, Doctor Willard,
KW  - Bitterfeld
KW  - gnd
KW  - Presidents
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Medical care
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Medical instruments and apparatus
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Assassination
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Attentat
KW  - Krankenpflege
KW  - Politik
KW  - sears
KW  - 1881-1885
KW  - Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922
KW  - Guiteau, Charles Julius, 1841-1882
KW  - Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881
KW  - NEW LIST 20111130
KW  - unknown
KW  - Equipment and Supplies
KW  - Biographies
KW  - rbgenr
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-323) and index; Prologue: 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
N2  - A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet; 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. -- Publisher description
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