The destiny of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president / Candice Millard.
Millard, Candice.
2011
E687.9 .M55 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
The destiny of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president / Candice Millard.
Author
Millard, Candice.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780385526265
0385526261
9780385535007
0385535007
Publication Details
New York : Doubleday, c2011.
Language
English
Description
x, 339 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm
Call Number
E687.9 .M55 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.8/4092
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Prologue: Chosen
Part One: Promise. The scientific spirit
Providence
"A beam in darkness"
God's minute man
Bleak mountain
Part Two: War. Hand and soul
Real Brutuses and Bolingbrokes
Brains, flesh, and blood
Casus belli
The dark dreams of presidents
"A desperate deed"
Part Three: Fear. "Thank God it is all over"
"It's true"
All evil consequences
Blood-guilty
Part Four: Tortured for the Republic. Neither death nor life
One nation
"Keep heart"
On a mountaintop, alone
Terror, hope, and despair
After all
All the angels of the universe
Epilogue: Forever and forever more.

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