TY - BOOK AU - Millard,Candice TI - Destiny of the republic: a tale of madness, medicine, and the murder of a president SN - 9780385526265 AV - E687.9 U1 - 973.8/4092 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New York [u.a.] PB - Doubleday KW - Garfield, James A KW - Guiteau, Charles J KW - Bell, Alexander Graham KW - Presidents KW - Medical care KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Medicine KW - Biography KW - Medical instruments and apparatus KW - Political culture KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Politics and government KW - 1881-1885 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-323) and index; Prologue: Chose -- Promise -- The scientific spirit -- Providence -- A light in the wilderness -- God's minuteman -- Bleak mountain -- War -- Hand and soul -- Real Brutuses and Bolingbrokes -- Brains, flesh, and blood -- Casus belli -- The dark dreams of presidents -- "A desperate deed" -- Fear -- "Thank God it is all over" -- "It's true" -- All evil consequences -- Blood-guilty -- "The whole nation kin" -- Neither death nor life -- One nation -- Hope -- On a mountaintop, alone -- Terror, hope, and despair -- One : after all -- Two : all the angels of the universe -- The scientific spirit N2 - Prologue: Chose -- Promise -- The scientific spirit -- Providence -- A light in the wilderness -- God's minuteman -- Bleak mountain -- War -- Hand and soul -- Real Brutuses and Bolingbrokes -- Brains, flesh, and blood -- Casus belli -- The dark dreams of presidents -- "A desperate deed" -- Fear -- "Thank God it is all over" -- "It's true" -- All evil consequences -- Blood-guilty -- "The whole nation kin" -- Neither death nor life -- One nation -- Hope -- On a mountaintop, alone -- Terror, hope, and despair -- One : after all -- Two : all the angels of the universe -- The scientific spirit ER -