I admit I knew very little about President James Garfield. I knew he was from Ohio. I knew he was assassinated. Because Garfield was the middle name of a character in my book BENTLEY SQUARE and in one part of the book, he tell his wife about Garfield, a farm boy whose father died young, so I knew his background was in agriculture.
Death by Lightning made me like this studious, hard-working, idealistic man. And his wife. And daughter. And then it made me care when he was shot by some looney guy who thought he was doing the country a favor. He suffered an agonizing death.
This was an excellent four-part series.
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