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

  • Millard, Candice.
Date:
[2011], ©2011
  • Books

About this work

Description

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.

Publication/Creation

New York : Doubleday, [2011], ©2011.

Physical description

x, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Contents

Prologue: Chosen -- Promise -- The scientific spirit -- Providence -- A beam in darkness -- God's minute man -- 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 -- Tortured for the Republic -- "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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-323) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZPXA (Garfield)
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780385526265
  • 0385526261
  • 9780385535007
  • 0385535007