Luke W’s Reviews > Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President > Status Update

Garfield was a true renaissance man: "A former professor of ancient languages, literature, and mathematics who had paid for his first year of college by working as a carpenter, Garfield’s interests and abilities were as deep as they were broad. In fact, so acute was his understanding of mathematics that he had recently written an original proof of the Pythagorean theorem during a free moment at the Capitol."