Mike Makowsky confesses to knowing "almost nothing" about James Garfield prior to the Emmy-contending limited series.

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Long before the term “parasocial relationship” made its way into therapy sessions and celebrity thinkpieces, there was Charles Guiteau — a failed lawyer, wannabe preacher, and self-styled political ...

The President James A. Garfield assassination is back, thanks to the Netflix series Death by Lightning. Garfield’s character foil is Charles Guiteau, who shot Garfield in 1881, four months into his ...

The old saying goes that truth is stranger than fiction, and that's certainly the case with Netflix's latest historical drama Death by Lightning, which recounts the meteoric rise and short-lived ...

At the beginning of the Netflix limited series “Death by Lightning,” about the rise and fall of President James Garfield in 1880–81, his soon-to-be assassin tries to excuse his checkered past before ...

Death by Lightning remains fairly loyal to the true story of President James A. Garfield’s assassination, but it does remove these ten major details. Netflix’s new historical thriller delves into the ...

Anxiety over political violence is filling the air, and the distress should never be downplayed. But it’s also worth noting that, like most things, it’s nothing new. If you seek a reminder, look no ...

American politics continue to be as omnipresent as they are endlessly divisive. It's easy to feel that progress is going backwards in these trying times, which is why some look to the past to glean ...

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Assassins lying in wait, political corruption, drunken vice presidential nominees: Is Netflix's "Death by Lightning" a wild invention of Hollywood, or was 19th century political history actually this ...