James A. Garfield The American Presidents Series: The 20th President, 1881【電子書籍】[ Ira Rutkow ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The ambitious self-made man who reached the pinnacle of American politicsーonly to be felled by an assassin's bullet and to die at the hands of his doctors＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞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ー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 Horatio Alger.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Garfield's term in office, however, was cut tragically short. Just four months into his presidency, a would-be assassin approached Garfield at the Washington, D.C., railroad station and fired a single shot into his back. Garfield's bad luck was to have his fate placed in the care of arrogant physicians who did not accept the new theory of antisepsis. Probing the wound with unwashed ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る