

Worsened, Garfield received help: Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of Shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. Wounded president as the object of a bitter behind-the-scenes struggleįor power-over his administration, over the nation’s future, and, Mood of a country so recently fractured by civil war, and left the Unhinged assassin’s half-delivered strike shattered the fragile national Happened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in turmoil. But four months after his inauguration,Ī deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in theīut the shot didn’t kill Garfield. President against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with theĬorrupt political establishment.

Hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Born intoĪbject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War One of the most extraordinary men ever elected president.
