| Description |
1 online resource (x, 319 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-323) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 -- Assassination.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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Guiteau, Charles J. (Charles Julius), 1841-1882.
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Presidents -- Medical care -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922.
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Medical instruments and apparatus -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1881-1885.
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Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Power (Social sciences) -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9780385535007 (electronic bk.) |
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0385535007 (electronic bk.) |
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