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Fascinating book on a topic I knew nothing about. (I vaguely remembered that Garfield was shot by an office seeker, but not much more than that.) The switching back and forth between the life of President Garfield and his (crazypants!) assassin was very well done. And I'm a little sad I hadn't known anything about Garfield before this; he comes off as a really wonderful human being.
Also: holy premodern medicine, Batman! It's clear early on that he may have been shot by Guiteau, but he was killed ...more
Also: holy premodern medicine, Batman! It's clear early on that he may have been shot by Guiteau, but he was killed ...more
When I started listening to this book I didn't know too much about any of the subjects. But, I found it to be very interesting and now I want to more about James Garfield. I loved this book.
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