James A. Garfield

Series: Hail to the Chiefs

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Candice Millard

Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President, explores the life and protracted death of James A. Garfield, who didn’t want to be president and was fatally shot just months into his first term.

Millard is the best-selling author of The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey. A former writer and editor for National Geographic, she lives in Leawood, Kansas. Co-presented with the Truman Library Institute and co-sponsored by KCUR’s Up to Date.

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