Destiny of the Republic is, of course about Garfield's political rise to an unsought-after presidency, but the bulk of the book is about the medicine and technology that were brought to bear in trying to save Garfield's life after being shot by a deranged "supporter" in July of 1881. In her second book, Destiny of the Republic, Millard applies her skills to a historical biography about President James Garfield. She put those skills to good use in her story about Theodore Roosevelt's near-fatal trip down a tributary of the Amazon in River of Doubt. It is a biography that is slightly out of the mainstream (Roosevelt's trip occurred after his time as president) and not entirely about the person at the center of the tale. Author, Candice Millard, is a former editor and writer for National Geographic, so she has a lot of experience writing about history and geography in a way that captures the imagination.
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