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Author Millard, Candice.

Title Destiny of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine, and the murder of a president / Candice Millard.

Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, [2011]
©2011

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.84 MILLARD    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY GARFIELD    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  BIOG. GARFIELD, J.    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B GARFIELD, JAMES A.    Check Shelf
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Edition First edition.
Description x, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-323) and index.
Contents Prologue: Chosen -- Promise. The scientific spirit -- Providence -- "A beam in darkness" -- God's minute man -- Bleak mountain -- War. Hand and soul -- Real Brutuses and Bolingbrokes -- Brains, flesh, and blood -- Casus belli -- The dark dreams of presidents -- "A desperate deed" -- Fear. "Thank God it is all over" -- "It's true" -- All evil consequences -- Blood-guilty -- Tortured for the republic. 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.
Summary 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.
Subject Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 -- Assassination.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Guiteau, Charles J. (Charles Julius), 1841-1882.
Presidents -- Medical care -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922.
Medical instruments and apparatus -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1881-1885.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Power (Social sciences) -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 9780385526265 hardcover 28.95
0385526261 hardcover
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