03338cam a2200373 4500 595675008 TxAuBib 20220729120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307939685 0307939685 fe59afcf-4c21-4ceb-aaf4-57e20b4036fa OverDrive (Reserve ID) 524418 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Millard, Candice. Destiny of the Republic [Bridges Audiobook] : A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President. Books on Tape, 2011. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 269MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 269MB. HTML:James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back.<br /> 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.<br /> Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, <i>The Destiny of the Republic</i> will stand alongside <i>The Devil in the White City</i> and <i>The Professor and the Madman</i> as a classic of narrative history. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Notable Books for Adults. Best Audio Books. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-26 20:00:02. Michael, Paul. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/524418-DestinyOfTheRepublic.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/524418-DestinyOfTheRepublic.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=FE59AFCF-4C21-4CEB-AAF4-57E20B4036FA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/524418-DestinyOfTheRepublic.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/524418-DestinyOfTheRepublic.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=FE59AFCF-4C21-4CEB-AAF4-57E20B4036FA&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)