Ridpath has added a 122 page 'The Life and Trial of Guiteau the Assassin' which sums up the man with a capitalized, one line statement: 'He is a moral idiot'. Blaine, ex-Secretary of State.Īt the end of the book, Mr.

The book also contains the full text of the memorial address delivered before the Congress by James A. It is sad reading - even the piece about the 300 men building 3200 feet of railway line overnight to connect the main line at Elberon, Long Branch, with the door of the Francklyn's sea-front cottage where it was hoped the stricken President would be able to recuperate. From that day, July 2, 1881, the book is presented almost as a diary covering the 80 days of medical mistakes. Guiteau, as he was arriving at a railway depot on his way to be with his wife. The first months of his short term in office had been unpleasant with such things as strife within the Party, his wife's illness and removal from the city for recuperation and a clamor for political office, the last of which gave rise to his being shot by a severely disappointed seeker, Charles J. If a reader assumes total accuracy by the writer, Mr. The Garfield story is a well presented history of a good man. Someone has used the book for pressing fern leaves and there are two newspaper clippings tween it's pages: one is a picture of Abraham Lincoln and the other is a 1918 obituary column for Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, byline Los Angeles March 18, which appears to be from a San Francisco Bay Area newspaper. There is some nice relief tooling on the spine and cover boards and the title and a picture of Mr. It's an 1882 publication by Jones Brothers and Company.

I have a beautiful copy of The Life and Work of James A.

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