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US politics
fromThe New Yorker
6 days ago

"Death by Lightning" Dramatizes the Assassination America Forgot

James Garfield emerges as an idealistic, self-effacing leader who rises within a corrupt post–Civil War Republican machine while Charles Guiteau becomes his assassin.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Death by Lightning review absolutely nobody plays losers like Matthew Macfadyen

He tried to insert himself into history by assassinating the US president, James Garfield, in 1881 but Garfield was only four months into his tenure, so all Guiteau did by shooting him was turn them both into difficult pub quiz answers. Death by Lightning pays careful tribute to Garfield, a quietly extraordinary statesman, but its focus is Guteau and, if this show is a hit, he might finally get his wish.
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