Candice Millard, author of
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President, explores the life and protracted death of James A. Garfield, who didn’t want to be president and was fatally shot just months into his first term.
Millard is the best-selling author of
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey. A former writer and editor for
National Geographic, she lives in Leawood, Kansas.
Coming up next...
The Hail to the Chiefs series continues on Wednesday, May 23, with economist and journalist
Zachary Karabell discussing the career of Garfield's vice-president, the undeservedly forgotten
Chester Alan Arthur.
Co-presented with the
Truman Library Institute and co-sponsored by
KCUR’s Up to Date.