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Image:  Garfield, shot by Charles J. Guiteau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Guiteau) , collapses as Secretary of State Blaine gestures for help. Engraving from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Leslie%27s_Illustrated_Newspaper) Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_audible_1?ie=UTF8&search-alias=audible&field-keywords=Candice+Millard) .     Paul Michael (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_audible_2?ie=UTF8&search-alias=audible&field-keywords=Paul+Michael) (Narrator), Random House Audio (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_audible_3?ie=UTF8&search-alias=audible&field-keywords=Random+House+Audio) (Publisher),  Audible Audiobook – Unabridgedhttps://www.amazon.com/Destiny-of-Republic-audiobook/dp/B005O5HY8C/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1595806445&sr=1-2    James A. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back.  But the shot didn’t kill Garfield. The drama of what happened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in turmoil. The unhinged assassin’s half-delivered strike shattered the fragile national mood of a country so recently fractured by civil war, and left the wounded president as the object of a bitter behind-the-scenes struggle for power—over his administration, over the nation’s future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. A team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. As his condition worsened, Garfield received help: Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, worked around the clock to invent a new device capable of finding the bullet.  Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic will stand alongside The Devil in the White City and The Professor and the Madman as a classic of narrative history.  From the hardcover edition.