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Candice Millard's Destiny Of The Republic
After reading Destiny of The Republic by Candice Millard I’ve concluded it is a well written book about the life of James Garfield which ties Charles Guiteau, Alexander Graham Bell, and Dr. Joseph Lister together in Garfield’s assassination and failed recovery. Although lengthy, Millard does well in her rhetorical skills of personifying the characters in the novel as real as they can be by using her sources and research.
Millard explains Garfield’s young life as a canal worker like his father, to his time as a janitor at Western Reserve Eclectic Institute and as a knowledge hungry professor, to a Civil War Union leader of the 42nd Ohio Infantry Regiment, to a US congressman of Ohio, and finally as the 20th president of the United States. Millard

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