Candice Millard

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (2011)

While most people know that President Garfield was assassinated, I never knew the story behind it.Garfield was a boy who grew up in poverty, lost his father at an early age, and his mother and brother worked their farm to give him an education. He became a state senator, a general in the Civil W...