num_pages: 272
description: When President William McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran A wild-eyed foreign anarchist with an unpronounceable name had killed the commander-in-chief. Eric Rauchway's brilliant Murdering McKinley restages Leon Czolgosz's hastily conducted trial and then traverses America with Dr. Vernon Briggs, a Boston alienist who sets out to discover why Czolgosz rose up to kill his president.
language: English
title: Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
titlecomplete: Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
genres: History, Presidents, American History, Read For School, Biography, Us Presidents, Crime, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 395
publisher: Hill and Wang