The book brings forth alive the U.S forgotten historical chapter. Extensively, if he had survived the bullet and served more than 200 days in office, he would have been more recognized by most of the people in the white house history. Millard Contends botched treatments, Garfield would have been part of the civil war veterans living with a lodged bullet in their body. Garfield in 1881 alongside the ill-fated misguided medical efforts that led to his untimely death. Candice focused on the ignored and fascinating subject: the assassination attempt on President James A. Candice Millard's Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a president is a great narrated and written book that takes the reader through the short presidency of James Garfield and the ignorant and abysmal state of the medical profession in his day compellingly and fascinatingly.
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