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Titre :
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Destiny of the Republic
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Auteurs :
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Candice Millard
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Type de document :
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document électronique
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Editeur :
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[S.l.] : Doubleday, 2011
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ISBN/ISSN/EAN :
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978-0-385-52626-5
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Index. décimale :
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973 (Etats-Unis)
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Résumé :
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James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man 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. But the shot didnÔÇÖt kill Garfield. The drama of what hap┬¡pened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in tur┬¡moil. The unhinged assassinÔÇÖs 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 powerÔÇöover his administration, over the nationÔÇÖs future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. A team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. As his con┬¡dition 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. Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic will stand alongside The Devil in the White City and The Professor and the Madman as a classic of narrative history.
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