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The destiny of the republic a tale of medicine, madness and the murder of a president

Millard, Candice (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0385535007 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780385535007 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 319 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill.
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  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, c2011.

Content descriptions

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.
Subject: Garfield, James A. (James Abram) 1831-1881 Assassination
Presidents United States Biography
Guiteau, 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
Genre: Electronic books.

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