Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard

Millard shows the Garfield legacy to be much more important than most of her readers knew it to be. It is the haunting tale of how a man who never meant to seek the presidency found himself swept into the White House. ( From Wikipedia.)į a much bigger scope than the events surrounding Garfield’s slow, lingering death. She lives in Kansas City with her husband and three children. Millard is a graduate of Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, and earned a master's degree in literature from Baylor University.

Millard's second book, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President, was released in 2011. She is a former writer and editor for National Geographic and the author of The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, a history of the Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition, Theodore Roosevelt's exploration of the Amazon Rainforest in 19. Currently-lives in Kansas City, Missouri, USAĬandice Sue Millard is an American writer and journalist.Education-Baker University M.A., Baylor University.Meticulously 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. 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.

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.Ī team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. The drama of what happened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in turmoil. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back.īut the shot didn’t kill Garfield. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard