E-audiobook
The destiny of the republic [a tale of medicine, madness & the murder of a president]
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307939685
- ISBN: 0307939685
- ISBN: 9780307939661
- ISBN: 0307939669
- ISBN: 9780307939678 :
- ISBN: 0307939677 :
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 sound file (9 hr., 47 min., 33 sec.) : digital - Edition: Unabridged ; Library ed.
- Publisher: Westminster, Md. : Books on Tape, p2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Subtitle from container. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: Chose -- Promise -- The scientific spirit -- Providence -- A light in the wilderness -- God's minuteman -- Bleak mountain -- War -- Hand and soul -- Real Brutuses and Bolingbrokes -- Brains, flesh, and blood -- Casus belli -- The dark dreams of presidents -- "A desperate deed" -- Fear -- "Thank God it is all over" -- "It's true" -- All evil consequences -- Blood-guilty -- "The whole nation kin" -- Neither death nor life -- One nation -- Hope -- On a mountaintop, alone -- Terror, hope, and despair -- One : after all -- Two : all the angels of the universe -- The scientific spirit. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Paul Michael. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on audiobook version record. |
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Summary:
A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.
