Candice Millard
“This is a book
that is impossible to put down.”
-David
Grann, author of The Lost City of Z
In the vein of The Devil in the White City, Candice Millard, author of the bestseller, The River of Doubt, examines an extraordinary episode in American history: when, in 1880, James A. Garfield, was shot by a madman. The congressman from Ohio was a darkhorse candidate for president and won, only to be assassinated before he could fulfill his destiny for the country. The horrific medical care he received; the trial of the assassin; and the politics that erupted are meticulously depicted and told in a relentlessly readable narrative that brings this often-forgotten part of American history vividly alive. She lives in Kansas City.
