The destiny of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president
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- ISBN: 0385535007
- ISBN: 9780385535007
- ISBN: 0385526261
- ISBN: 9780385526265
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Physical Description:
x, 319 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, c2011.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-323) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: Chose -- Promise -- The scientific spirit -- Providence -- A light in the wilderness -- God's minuteman -- 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 -- "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. |
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