Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. But contrary to what is written in most history books, Garfield didn't linger and die. He survived. Alexander Graham Bell raced against time to invent the world's first metal detector to locate the bullet in Garfield's body so that doctors could safely operate. Despite Bell's efforts to save Garfield, however, and as never before fully revealed, the interventions of Garfield's friend and doctor, Dr. D. W. Bliss, brought ...
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Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. But contrary to what is written in most history books, Garfield didn't linger and die. He survived. Alexander Graham Bell raced against time to invent the world's first metal detector to locate the bullet in Garfield's body so that doctors could safely operate. Despite Bell's efforts to save Garfield, however, and as never before fully revealed, the interventions of Garfield's friend and doctor, Dr. D. W. Bliss, brought about the demise of the nation's twentieth president. But why would a medical doctor engage in such monstrous behavior? Did politics, petty jealousy, or failed aspirations spark the fire inside Bliss that led him down the path of homicide? Rosen proves how depraved indifference to human life--second-degree murder--rather than ineptitude led to Garfield's drawn-out and painful death. Now, more than one hundred years later, historian and homicide investigator Fred Rosen reveals through newly accessed documents and Bell's own correspondence the long list of Bliss's criminal acts and malevolent motives that led to his murder of the president.
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Near fine in very good jacket. Illustrated with a handful of b/w photos. 218 pages. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. (Lincoln): Potomac Books, (2016). A near fine copy in a very good wrapper--tearing at foot of spine.
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Fine in fine jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. 218 pp (with appendix and bibliography). A historian's review of the attempted assassination and medical interference that lead to the death of the nation's 20th president. The president lingered while Alexander Graham Bell raced to invent the first metal detector to locate the bullet, only for a personal friend of the president to intervene. The author describes the brilliance of a well-intentioned inventor, vs the depraved mind of a sadist.
