Candice Millard

The Northshire Bookstore Dark Side Reading Group will meet in our conference room on Wednesday, October 17th, at 1pm in our conference room to discuss, Destiny of the Republic, by Candice Millard.

We regret to post that our ever popular Dark Side Reading Group is currently full. Please contact Alden, agraves@northshir.com to join a waiting list.

Location: Street: 4869 Main St Additional: City: Manchester Center, Province: Vermont Postal Code: 05255 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Candice Millard discusses Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Modern Medicine and the Murder of a President.

The Georgia Center for the Book is proud to co-sponsor Candice Millard, the award-winning author of the national bestseller ”River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey,” for a talk about her fascinating new book: ”Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Modern Medicine and the Murder of a President.” 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. The author is a former writer and editor for National Geographic, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Time magazine. Appropriate to the subject of her book, we’re happy this event will be held at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. We’ll have copies of the new book for sale, of course. Free and Open to the Public. If you cannot attend the reading, but would like a signed copy of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, you may reserve it at http://acappellabooks.com/ev_millard.asp . (jasbro)… (more)