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The destiny of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine, and the murder of a president / Candice Millard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millard, Candice.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881--Assassination.
- Garfield, James A.
- Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Power (Social sciences).
- History.
- Medical instruments and apparatus.
- Medical care.
- Assassination.
- United States.
- Guiteau, Charles J. (Charles Julius), 1841-1882.
- Guiteau, Charles J.
- Presidents--Medical care--United States--History--19th century.
- Medicine--United States--History--19th century.
- Medicine.
- Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922.
- Bell, Alexander Graham.
- Medical instruments and apparatus--United States--History--19th century.
- United States--Politics and government--1881-1885.
- Politics and government.
- Political culture--United States--History--19th century.
- Political culture.
- Power (Social sciences)--United States--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, [2011]
- 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.
- 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
- "The whole nation kin"
- Neither death nor life
- One nation
- Hope
- On a mountaintop, alone
- Terror, hope, and despair
- One : after all
- Two : all the angels of the universe
- The scientific spirit.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-323) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780385526265
- 0385526261
- 9780385535007
- 0385535007
- OCLC:
- 700205578
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