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Author:

Millard, Candice.

Title:

Destiny of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president / Candice Millard.

Edition:

1st Anchor Books ed.

Publisher:

Anchor Books,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

398 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Garfield, James A.--(James Abram),--1831-1881--Assassination.
Presidents--United States--Biography.
Guiteau, Charles Julius,--1841-1882.
Presidents--History--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-382) and index.

Contents:

Prologue: Chosen -- Part One: Promise. The scientific spirit -- Providence -- "A beam in darkness" -- God's minute man -- Bleak mountain -- Part Two: War. Hand and soul -- Real Brutuses and Bolingbrokes -- Brains, flesh, and blood -- Casus belli -- The dark dreams of presidents -- "A desperate deed" -- Part Three: Fear. "Thank God it is all over" -- "It's true" -- All evil consequences -- Blood-guilty -- Part Four: Tortured for the Republic. Neither death nor life -- One nation -- "Keep heart" -- On a mountaintop, alone -- Terror, hope, and despair -- After all -- All the angels of the universe -- Epilogue: Forever and forever more.

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.

ISBN:

0767929713
9780767929714

OCLC:

(OCoLC)781683292

Locations:

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ZBPE245 -- Norelius Community Library (Denison)

TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

VHPA334 -- Hawkeye Public Library (Hawkeye)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

HOPC845 -- Hull Public Library (Hull)

CNPC792 -- Montezuma Public Library (Montezuma)

PEPC626 -- Stilwell Public Library (New Sharon)

ESPD725 -- Sibley Public Library (Sibley)

XPPC367 -- Sidney Public Library (Sidney)

HRPE845 -- Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center)

BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)