[expatpat]

...and the point of this post is?

[GB]

The point is the discussion of history, which interests a lot of people.

The volume on Garfield in "The American Presidents" series of short biographies on all the presidents was recently released, and most of it deals with his medical care after his assassination ... this one was actually written by a medical doctor ... and was quite an interesting read.

[neverdem]

and the point of this post is?

Medical & American History

[bvw]

Read up on the life and trial of one Charlie Guiteau, herald of a new age, and you get a great, complete and wide tale of America just on the brink of the bloody era we call the twentieth century. Oh that a writer of the caliber of a Barbara Tuchman could pen the book! There were the roots of the dread era which she searched for in A Proud Tower.

Not in a Rosa Luxembourg, but in one Charles Guiteau.