Garfield served less than a year as commander in chief and is remembered as a footnote president, if at all. It is a fascinating look into a period of neglected American history. So begins Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, Candice Millard’s account of President James Garfield’s assassination and the medical bungling that led to his death at the age of 49. The backdrop: portions of the yet-to-be-assembled Statue of Liberty on display for thousands of curious onlookers. Then, in a flashback from four years earlier, the other major protagonists, from the soon-to-be 20th president to men who revolutionized medicine and communications, share the stage at the nation’s Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. First, the killer walks away from a deadly steamship accident on Long Island Sound.
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