A team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. 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.
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. 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. X, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cmĪ 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 1841-1882, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld, Presidents - United States - Biography, Presidents - Medical care - United States - History - 19th century, Medicine - United States - History - 19th century, Medical instruments and apparatus - United States - History - 19th century, Political culture - United States - History - 19th century, Power (Social sciences) - United States - History - 19th century, Equipment and Supplies, Assassination, Medical instruments and apparatus, Medicine, Political culture, Politics and government, Power (Social sciences), Presidents, Attentat, Krankenpflege, Politik, Presidents - Medical care - History, Medicine - United States - History, Power (Social sciences) - United States - History, United States - Politics and government - 1881-1885, United States - Politics and government, United States Publisher New York : Doubleday Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation Contributor Internet Archive Language English (James Abram), 1831-1881 - Assassination, Guiteau, Charles J. Publication date 2011 Topics Garfield, James A.
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