![]() ![]() As is frequently the case in politics, Garfield proved the candidate behind whom all factions of the Republican party could unite rather than a man who desired high office, and he won the 1880 election by an extremely narrow margin. Guiteau, contrasting the honour and achievements of one while supplying the succession of disgraces and disappointments as Guiteau stumbles through his life keeping a single step ahead of his creditors. He then supplies simultaneous biographies of Garfield and his killer Charles J. Geary begins with Garfield lying in state, before detailing his funereal tour by rail from Washington to his home city of Cleveland. As with all other books in the series, Geary investigates the circumstances of the killing from all angles, sticking to known evidence, and providing simple figurative illustrations to accompany his detailed reportage. Garfield is now far more obscure despite Garfield being a popular figure during his life. Rick Geary covers the 1865 murder of Abraham Lincoln in a later Treasury of Victorian Murder book, but the case of James A. ![]() ![]() It was ninety years after American independence that the first President was assassinated, yet it took only another sixteen years before it occurred again. ![]()
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