The ambitious self-made man who reached the pinnacle of American politics— only to be felled by an assassin’ s bullet and to die at the hands of his doctors James A. Garfield was one of the Republican Party’ s leading lights in the years following the Civil War. Born in a log cabin, he rose to become a college president, Union Army general, and congressman— all by the age of thirty-two. Embodying the strive-and-succeed spirit that captured the imagination of Americans in his time, he was elected president in 1880. It is no surprise that one of his biographers was...
The ambitious self-made man who reached the pinnacle of American politics— only to be felled by an assassin’ s bullet and to die at the ha...
A timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician
Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accounts of its history are uncommon. Until Ira Rutkow's "Seeking the Cure, "there have been no modern works, either for the lay reader or the physician, that convey the extraordinary story of medicine in the United States. Yet for more than three centuries, the flowering of medicine--its triumphal progress from ignorance to science--has proven crucial to Americans' under-standing of their country and themselves....
A timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician
Despite all that has been written and said about A...
