from College news -- Hiram dot-edu:
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President shines a spotlight on former U.S. and Hiram College President James A. Garfield.
The book’s author Candice Millard will speak at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 16, in Dix Dining Hall of the Kennedy Center. The event is sponsored by the Center for Engaged Ethics, and part of the College’s recognition of the 180th anniversary of Garfield’s birth (Nov. 19).
This fall, Destiny of the Republic has garnered national attention, being named a New York Times Best Seller and one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2011. In it, Millard chronicles Garfield’s emergence from poverty into a scholar, Civil War hero, congressman, and eventually, President of the United States, begging the question what kind of president he could have been, had his life not been cut short.
Garfield was shot by assassin Charles J. Guiteau just months into his presidency, but the shot wasn’t what killed him. Destiny of the Republic brings to light the story of what happened between the day he was shot – July 2, 1881 – to the day he died 80 days later on Sept. 19 of that year.
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