The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau
The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau

Author: Charles E. Rosenberg

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0226727173

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In this brilliant study, Charles Rosenberg uses the celebrated trial of Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President Garfield in 1881, to explore insanity and criminal responsibility in the Gilded Age. Rosenberg masterfully reconstructs the courtroom battle waged by twenty-four expert witnesses who represented the two major schools of psychiatric thought of the generation immediately preceding Freud. Although the role of genetics in behavior was widely accepted, these psychiatrists fiercely debated whether heredity had predisposed Guiteau to assassinate Garfield. Rosenberg's account allows us to consider one of the opening rounds in the controversy over the criminal responsibility of the insane, a debate that still rages today.

The Assassination of James A. Garfield
The Assassination of James A. Garfield

Author: Robert Kingsbury

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2001-12-15

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780823935406

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Examines one of America's lesser-known presidents, his assassination, and the life of Charles Guiteau, who killed him.