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Image:  An engraving of James A. Garfield's assassination, published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. The caption reads "Washington, D.C.—The attack on the President's life—Scene in the ladies' room of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad depot—The arrest of the assassin / from sketches by our special artist's [sic] A. Berghaus and C. Upham." President Garfield is at center right, leaning after being shot. He is supported by Secretary of State James G. Blaine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Blaine) , who wears a light-colored top hat. To left, h assassin Charles Guiteau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Guiteau) is restrained by members of the crowd, one of whom is about to strike him with a cane.     Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard (https://www.amazon.com/Candice-Millard/e/B001ILFMH6/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1)     James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men 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.  https://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Republic-Madness-Medicine-President-ebook/dp/B004J4X33O/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=candice+millard&qid=1610237644&s=digital-text&sr=1-2