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So far, this is one of the most infuriating books I have ever read. Painful detail about every tantrum Roscoe Conkling ever threw. Blatant scalding and unwarranted criticism of any figure who wasn’t 100% supportive of Garfield. Additionally, the book is flooded with spelling and grammatical errors, including a description of Conkling’s blonde “bread.” If you enjoy reading catty drama, this book is for you.

Into it now that Netflix has a series on the episode. It’s bizarre.

"Suicide is the chief mode of political death after all."

A second assassination with 16 years with yet another homegrown assassin made the public wonder what kind of country the United States had become.

"I am a Stalwart and Arthur will be president."

Robert Todd Lincoln the son of Abraham Lincoln was at the scene of not only Garfield's assassination but also William McKinley.....He was a bad omen.

The White House had a sour smell; sewage odors wafting in from the sometimes malarial swamps beyond the south lawn and from the basement often gave Garfield and his wife Lucretia headaches or nausea.

Garfield had rejected the idea of posting uniformed guards at the White House. He felt a president in a democratic America should not have to worry about assassins like a European monarch. He felt Lincoln's assassination had been a fluke of the Civil War.