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But 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.
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.
- Candice Millard - Author
- Paul Michael - Narrator
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780307939685
- File size: 282056 KB
- Release date: September 20, 2011
- Duration: 09:47:36
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- ISBN: 9780307939685
- File size: 282450 KB
- Release date: September 20, 2011
- Duration: 09:47:35
- Number of parts: 8
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