Title:
Destiny of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine, and the murder of a president / Candice Millard.
ISBN:
9780385526265
9780767929714
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, [2011]
Physical Description:
x, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
General Note:
Special features, paginations and enhancements may vary by copy.
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 -- Neither death nor life -- One nation -- "Keep heart" -- On a mountaintop, alone -- Terror, hope, and despair -- After all -- All the angels of the universe -- Forever and forever more.
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." -- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
ocn700205578
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