![]() ![]() Garfield served fewer than 200 days in office before being gunned down in July 1881 by an “unhinged” man named Charles Guiteau-a frustrated office seeker and two-bit lawyer who credited himself with orchestrating Garfield’s unsought victory at the Republican National Convention, in 1880. In her brilliant and absorbing new book, Destiny of the Republic, Candice Millard makes a persuasive case for elevating a third martyred president-America’s 20th-to the pantheon long reserved for Lincoln and Kennedy. In significant respects we continue to mourn these men, as if by doing so we might keep alive what is finest about America when confronted daily by what is ugliest. But only two of the unfortunates continue to command the lion’s share of attention from popular writers, scholars, filmmakers, and, not least, conspiracy theorists. ![]() ![]() Assassins’ bullets have carried off four American presidents. ![]()
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