Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America

About this book

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.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780809016389

Publisher

Hill & Wang

Published

September 18, 2004

Pages

272

Weight

9.1 oz

Subject

Social Science