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Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. But contrary to what is written in most history books, Garfield didnât linger and die. He survived. Alexander Graham Bell raced against time to invent the worldâs first metal detector to locate the bullet in Garfieldâs body so that doctors could safely operate. Despite Bellâs efforts to save Garfield, however, and as never before fully revealed, the interventions of Garfieldâs friend and
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doctor, Dr. D. W. Bliss, brought about the demise of the nationâs twentieth president.
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But why would a medical doctor engage in such monstrous behavior? Did politics, petty jealousy, or failed aspirations spark the fire inside Bliss that led him down the path of homicide? Rosen proves how depraved indifference to human lifeâsecond-degree murderârather than ineptitude led to Garfieldâs drawn-out and painful death. Now, more than one hundred years later, historian and homicide investigator Fred Rosen reveals through newly accessed documents and Bellâs own correspondence the long list of Blissâs criminal acts and malevolent motives that led to his murder of the president. MURDERING THE PRESIDENT: Alexander Graham Bell and the Race to Save James Garfield-Fred Rosen and Hank Garfield.
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