Summary of Candice Millard's Destiny of the Republic

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 The Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the country’s promise, was shipped in pieces from France for the United States’ Centennial Exhibition, a world’s fair celebrating the country’s first one hundred years. It was installed in New York Harbor in 1876.

#2 Garfield was very impressed with the exposition, and wrote in his diary that it was a success in the way of education. He believed that education was the only way the country could escape its painful past.

#3 Garfield was a supporter of equal rights for freed slaves, and he argued for a resolution that ended the practice of requiring blacks to carry a pass in the nation’s capital. He was also impressed by the determination of the men and women he met at the fair.

#4 Bell was a teacher of the deaf, and he had come to the Philadelphia Exhibition to demonstrate his new telephone. He was disappointed to find that his exhibit was in the Massachusetts educational section, between pipe organs and educational pamphlets.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669384250

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the country’s promise, was shipped in pieces from France for the United States’ Centennial Exhibition, a world’s fair celebrating the country’s first one hundred years. It was installed in New York Harbor in 1876.

#2

Garfield was very impressed with the exposition, and wrote in his diary that it was a success in the way of education. He believed that education was the only way the country could escape its painful past.

#3

Garfield was a supporter of equal rights for freed slaves, and he argued for a resolution that ended the practice of requiring blacks to carry a pass in the nation’s capital. He was also impressed by the determination of the men and women he met at the fair.

#4

Bell was a teacher of the deaf, and he had come to the Philadelphia Exhibition to demonstrate his new telephone. He was disappointed to find that his exhibit was in the Massachusetts educational section, between pipe organs and educational pamphlets.

#5

Bell was hoping to show the judges his telephone, but he was forced to leave before they could see it. He had come to the fair hoping to show an invention, but would have to leave early the next morning.

#6

While Bell’s technological innovation caught fire in an instant, Joseph Lister’s discovery, one of the most important advances in medical history, was lightly dismissed. Lister’s method was criticized as being ridiculous, but he knew that the difference between his method and the old method was life or death.

#7

By 1876, Lister’s work had silenced nearly all of his detractors. He presented his findings to the American Medical Congress, but was met with skepticism. He appealed to the doctors’ vanity, reminding them who they were and what they had achieved.

#8

After losing his son, Garfield began to think about the meaning of life and death. He realized that the science he so