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On a sweltering morning in July 1881, two gunshots shattered the calm of Washington's Baltimore & Potomac train station-and the course of American history changed forever. President James Abram Garfield, a self-made man who rose from poverty to the highest office in the land, collapsed to the floor as a delusional drifter named Charles J. Guiteau proclaimed himself the instrument of God. What followed was not only an assassination but a revelation-a nation forced to confront its own corruption, incompetence, and madness. Death by Lightning: The True Story of President Garfield's Murder, Political Corruption, and the Madness That Shook America exposes the shocking truth behind one of the most tragic and transformative moments in U.S. history. Drawing from original letters, trial records, and first-hand accounts, it tells a story of obsession and betrayal, of medical arrogance and political decay. It is the chronicle of a country drunk on power and blind to the storm gathering in its midst. From the corridors of the White House to the fevered mind of the assassin, this book reveals how one man's delusion struck like lightning and illuminated the rot at the heart of the Gilded Age. Garfield's slow, torturous death became a mirror reflecting the sickness of the system he sought to heal-and the birth of reform that would change government forever. Hauntingly written and meticulously researched, Death by Lightning is more than a historical narrative-it is a warning that still resonates. The madness that claimed Garfield did not end in 1881; it lingers in the pulse of modern politics, where ambition and delusion still clash beneath the thunder of power. If you think history can't repeat itself, think again. Step into the storm that forged a new America. Buy Death by Lightning today and discover how one bullet exposed the soul of a nation.

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