Murdering the President

List of Illustrations    
Foreword by Hank Garfield    
Preface    
Prologue: The Rainbow City    
Part One
1. “Circumstances Have Led Me into Both Callings”     
2. “First Fruit”     
3. “I Am Greatly Perplexed on the Question of Duty”     
4. “The Men of the Third Infantry Were Not Receiving the Best of Medical Care”     
5. “To Lose Kentucky Is Nearly the Same as to Lose the Whole Game”     
6. “I Probably Should Not Have Kept Attacking”     
7. “Why Don’t You Plant Flower Seeds?”     
8. “It Will Indeed Be a Day of Blood”     
9. “The Republican Majority in Congress Is Very Small”     
10. “Hands Up!”     
Part Two
11. “God Reigns, and the Government at Washington Still Lives!”     
12. “You Don’t Really Feel You Are Going into the Backwoods, Do You?”     
13. “The Doctor Declares that the Minister Does Not Own an Acre of Land There”     
14. “Be Always Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead”     
15. “We Should Not Speak of Love"    
16. “Aye, There’s the Rub”     
17. “Mr. President, Are You Badly Hurt?”     
18. “It Was a Time of Intense Excitement and Painful Suspense”     
19. “Science Should Be Able to Discover Some Less Barbarous Method of Exploration”     
Part Three
20. “Papa Has Gone to Make Poor Mr. Garfield Well”     
21. “She Excites in Me the Fire of Lawless Passion”     
22. “Feeding per Rectum”     
23. “We Were Enabled . . . to Use Specially Prepared Blood”     
24. “Mr. President . . . You Are Getting Out of the Woods”     
25. “The Bullet Was Not in Any Part of the Area Explored!”     
26. “I Think the Doctors Did the Work”     
27. “I Am Not Guilty of the Charge Set Forth in the Indictment”     
Epilogue: Over the Rainbow City    
Acknowledgments    
Appendix: The Garfield Agreement of 1872    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index