Murdering the president : Alexander Graham Bell and the race to save James Garfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosen, Fred, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881--Death and burial.

Garfield, James A.

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881--Assassination.

Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922.

Bell, Alexander Graham.

Bliss, Doctor Willard, 1825-1889.

Bliss, Doctor Willard.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2016.

Lincoln, Nebraska : Potomac Books, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. But contrary to what is written in most history books, Garfield didn't linger and die. He survived. Alexander Graham Bell raced against time to invent the world's first metal detector to locate the bullet in Garfield's body so that doctors could safely operate. Despite Bell's efforts to save Garfield, however, and as never before fully revealed, the interventions of Garfield's friend and doctor, Dr. D. W. Bliss, brought about the demise of the nation's twentieth president. But why would a medical doctor engage in such monstrous behavior? Did politics, petty jealousy, or failed aspirations spark the fire inside Bliss that led him down the path of homicide? Rosen proves how depraved indifference to human life—second-degree murder—rather than ineptitude led to Garfield's drawn-out and painful death. Now, more than one hundred years later, historian and homicide investigator Fred Rosen reveals through newly accessed documents and Bell's own correspondence the long list of Bliss's criminal acts and malevolent motives that led to his murder of the president.

Contents:

Prologue: the Rainbow City

101 circumstances have led me into both callings

First fruit

I am greatly perplexed on the question of duty

The men of the 3rd Infantry were not receiving the best of medical care

To lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game

I probably should not have kept attacking

Why don't you plant flower seeds?

It will indeed be a day of blood

The Republican majority in Congress is very small

Hands up!

God reigns, and the government at Washington still lives!

You don't really feel you are going into the backwoods, do you?

The Dr. declares that the minister does not own an acre of land there

Be always sure you are right, then go ahead

We should not speak of love

Aye there's the rub

Mr. President, are you badly hurt?

It was a time of intense excitement and painful suspense

Science should be able to discover some less barbarous method of exploration

Papa has gone to make poor Mr. Garfield well

She excites in me the fire of lawless passion

Feeding per rectum

We were enabled...to use specially prepared blood

Mr. President...you are getting out of the woods

The bullet was not in any part of the area explored!

I think the doctors did the work

I am not guilty of the charge set forth in the indictment

Epilogue: over the Rainbow City.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

1-61234-865-3

1-61234-863-7

OCLC:

953735517