Brady Carlson - Dead Presidents: An American adventure Into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation's Leaders

James Garfield was assassinated—but it wasn’t the bullet that killed him. In Forest Lawn Cemetery the thirteenth president, Millard Fillmore, lies near funk legend Rick James, but there’s a reason for this pair of strange eternal bedfellows. Reporting these and other little-known facts, and delving into the stories behind them, Carlson, a host and reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio’s Weekend Edition, has compiled an informative, unusual, and surprisingly cheerful travelogue.