I was lucky enough to get a signed copy of this award-winning book at last year's ALA. It was written by a woman who is widely known not only as a great writer, but also as the most beautiful of all historians. My copy, unfortunately, was replaced in transit through the Post Office's "we reserve the right to replace any books that fall out of boxes that we accidentally destroy with randomly selected other books from our lost book pile" policy, so I had to read a library copy instead.
Millard, the author of River of Doubt, does an excellent job illuminating the tragedy of Garfield's shooting by Charles Guiteau, a crazy, crazy man, the subsequent malpractice by eminent physician D. Willard Bliss, a self-promoting know-it-all, and Garfield's two months of suffering before his death. She also weaves this all into the larger narrative of the United States during the 1880s, with James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, and Vice-President Chester Alan Arthur featuring prominently.
An interesting book, that moves along smartly.
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