The new limited series follows President James Garfield as he rises from the depths of poverty to the pinnacle of American politics — only for his presidency to be cut short by a delusional office seeker named Charles Guiteau. Based on Candice Millard’s 2011 book Destiny of the Republic, Death by Lightning is an intimate drama with nationwide consequences.
“Candice really honed in on this parallel structure, where she was constantly weighing the president, this great man, James Garfield, against the man who would come to kill him, Guiteau,” series creator and writer Mike Makowsky tells Tudum.
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