Only 100 days into office, President Garfield was shot down in a train station by a disturbed office seeker. 'Destiny of the Republic' author Candice Millard along with Michelle Krowl, of the Library of Congress, examine the life cut short. Particularly, they explore Garfield's impoverished beginnings, his fierce intellect, his gregarious nature--and the way his death changed American medicine.
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