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SUMMARY:Friday Book Club - Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness\, Medicine and the Murder of a President
DESCRIPTION:by Candice Millard \nRegister for our April Book Club meeting! \nFrom Goodreads: \nJames A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty\, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar\, a Civil War hero\, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will\, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration\, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back. \nBut the shot didn’t kill Garfield. The drama of what hap­pened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in tur­moil. The unhinged assassin’s half-delivered strike shattered the fragile national mood of a country so recently fractured by civil war\, and left the wounded president as the object of a bitter behind-the-scenes struggle for power—over his administration\, over the nation’s future\, and\, hauntingly\, over his medical care. A team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments\, to disastrous effect. As his con­dition worsened\, Garfield received help: Alexander Graham Bell\, the inventor of the telephone\, worked around the clock to invent a new device capable of finding the bullet. \nMeticulously researched\, epic in scope\, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive\, The Destiny of the Republic will stand alongside The Devil in the White City and The Professor and the Madman as a classic of narrative history.
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