Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America

Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
ISBN-10
0374707375
ISBN-13
9780374707378
Category
History
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2007-04-15
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Author
Eric Rauchway

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 rampant: 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.

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