Title: The destiny of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president /
Authors: Millard, Candice
Publisher: Doubleday,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Bliss, Doctor Willard.; Bell, Alexander Graham.; Guiteau, Charles Julius.; Garfield, James A.; Guiteau, Charles J.; Garfield, James A. Assassination.; Bell, Alexander Graham,; Garfield, James A. Assassination.; Guiteau, Charles Julius,; Bell, Alexander Graham,; Guiteau, Charles J.; Garfield, James A; Guiteau, Charles Julius,; Bell, Alexander Graham,; Bliss, Doctor Willard,; Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer; History, 19th Century; Wounds, Gunshot; Homicide; Presidents United States Biography; Presidents Medical care United States History; Medicine United States History; Medical instruments and apparatus United States History; Political culture United States History; Power (Social sciences) United States History; Presidents United States Biography.; Presidents Medical care History.; Medicine United States History.; Power (Social sciences) United States History.; Famous Persons; Equipment and Supplies; United States; United States Politics and government; United States Politics and government.
Abstract: 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: 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.