To be quite honest, neither of us thought we'd care about James Garfield as much as we now do. Thanks, Candice Millard!
Two Book Minimum:
- Oreo by Fran Ross
- Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays By Women by Marcia Aldrich (editor, contributor)
- Why Won’t You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals And Everyday Hurts, opens a new window by Harriet Lerner (coming to Lawrence Public Library in 2017)
- Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide To Sex, Marriage And Manners by Therese Oneill
She Said / She Said:
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D, opens a new windowestiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, opens a new window by Candice Millard
The extraordinary New York Times bestselling account of James Garfield’s rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from bestselling author of The River of Doubt, Candice Millard.
James Abram Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, a renowned congressman, and a reluctant presidential candidate who took on the nation’s corrupt political establishment. But four months after Garfield’s inauguration in 1881, he was shot in the back by a deranged office-seeker named Charles Guiteau. Garfield survived the attack, but become the object of bitter, behind-the-scenes struggles for power—over his administration, over the nation’s future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic brings alive a forgotten chapter of U.S. history.
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