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Extra! Extra! This May 2012 at the Kansas City Public Library, For the first time in 130 years, James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur are "running together" again in our Hail to the Chiefs Series. First, Candice Millard, best-selling Kansas City author of River of Doubt, discusses her Edgar Award-winning new book on the assassination of Garfield, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, & the Murder of a President, Wednesday, May 16, at the Plaza Branch. (RSVP for Millard: http://bit.ly/IBJPl9). Next, historian, economist, and journalist Zachary Karabell talks about how Garfield's vice president Chester A. Arthur created professional civil service and ushered in a new era of reform in America. (RSVP for Karabell: http://bit.ly/Iuec9e). The Hail to the Chiefs series is co-presented by the Truman Library Institute and the Kansas City Public Library.
