While most people know that President Garfield was assassinated, I never knew the story behind it.Garfield was a boy who grew up in poverty, lost his father at an early age, and his mother and brother worked their farm to give him an education. He became a state senator, a general in the Civil W...
In fact, only a handful of men knew that anything was amiss, and they were not talking. While Churchill had been strolling through Pretoria, doing his best imitation of a man enjoying a summer evening, Haldane and Brockie had been scrambling to buy him time. They did this even though the mere men...
Before him rushed the River of Doubt, dark, swollen, and littered with debris from fallen trees. Having overflowed its banks, it coursed through the forest on either side in wayward streams and rivulets, picking up clots of leaves and displaced birds’ nests, and filling the jungle with a glasslik...
GARFIELDLucretia was packing her bags in her hotel room in Elberon, New Jersey, preparing to meet James for their trip to New England, when General David Swaim knocked on her door. At one point during the Civil War, when Garfield had been too sick to walk, Swaim had literally carried him home. No...