Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

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The atypical New York Times-bestselling account of James Garfield’s rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from bestselling creator of The River of Doubt, Candice Millard. 
 
For a man forced into the presidency, the legacy of James Garfield extended far beyond his lifetime, and Destiny of the Republic revisits his meteoric rise throughout the military and government with meticulous research and intimate center of attention. Garfield was once a passionate advocate of freed slaves, a reformer at odds with Republican power brokers and machine politics, a devoted father, and a spellbinding speech-giver. Four months after taking workplace he was once shot twice by an unhinged workplace-seeker, Charles Guiteau, and a nation already recently fractured by war shattered, leaving the wounded president at the center of a bitter, at the back of-the-scenes struggle for power. Examining the medical reform spurred by Garfield’s unsanitary medical remedy, and reflecting at the surprising political reform brought on by his former political enemy Senator Roscoe Conkling, Destiny of the Republic passionately brings President Garfield’s unknown-but-widely-felt legacy into center of attention.

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