Murdering McKinley
Subtitle: the making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
By: Eric Rauchway
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780809071708
Subjects: Anarchists; Politics and government; Assassins; Presidents; Assassination; Political and social views; Biography; Progressivism (United States politics); Progressive Movement; Mord
Description: "After President William McKinley was fatally shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Eric Rauchway's brilliant Murdering McKinley re-creates Leon Czolgosz's hastily conducted trial and then traverses America as Dr. Vernon Briggs, a Boston alienist, sets out to discover why Czolgosz rose up to kill his President. While uncovering the answer that eluded Briggs and setting the historical record straight about Czolgosz, Rauchway also provides the finest protrait yet of Theodore Roosevelt at the moment of his sudden ascension to the White House."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A week at the fair.; title: The letter of the law.; title: Decent.; title: Killer anarchism.; title: All-American.; title: The interpretation of dreams.; title: An irresistible impulse.