The President and the Assassin (Audiobook)

from bontley

Interesting, informative, relaxed, succinct.

from chrisblocker

A "Review" of The President and the Assassin With a title like The President and the Assassin, you'd think this book was about a president and an assassin. And it is. Sort of. This book is less about the individuals and more about the period and the prevailing attitudes at the turn of the century...

from LauGal

Very good read. Dry in spots but not as dry as other non-fiction. I enjoyed reading abt the Polish immigrant experience and the personal life of McKinley as well as the Pan Am experience.One thing for sure is that 112 years later,politics has NOT changed.Substiute terrorists for anarchists,the im...

from Beamis12

What a fantastic and interesting book about McKinley and the beginnings of the labor movement, along with the life of the assassin. Seems they had the same problems, with slightly different names, that we have now and this was more than a hundred years ago. Same class divide, a movement protestin...

from DarthDeverell

Scott Miller's The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century is a parallel biography of President William McKinley and anarchist Leon Czolgosz, as well as the events that shaped them. Of McKinley, Miller argues, "At home and abroad, McKinley was ...