I just read a good book on Garfield’s assasination. I forgot the title but looking just now on Amazon, I think it is Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President.
My son (11) is reading O’Reilly’s book, Killing Lincoln, which covers his last 14 days. He says it’s pretty good.
There was an author on C-SPAN a while back, possibly the author of that book, who thought Garfield had the potential to be one of the outstanding Presidents...if he hadn’t been killed so soon in his term.
I just finished that outstanding book myself. What a huge loss of a great man. Even sadder the fact that Garfield would've easily survived his wound if not for the hubris and complete medical malpractice committed by the doctor who treated him.