The two men seemed to live in eerily parallel Americas. McKinley was to his contemporaries an enigma, a president whose conflicted feelings about imperialism reflected the country’s own. Under its popular Republican commander-in-chief, the United States was undergoing an uneasy transition from a simple agrarian society to an industrial powerhouse spreading its influence overseas by force of arms. Czolgosz was on the losing end of the economic changes taking place—a first-generation Polish immigrant and factory worker sickened by a government that seemed focused solely on making the rich richer. With a deft narrative hand, journalist Scott Miller chronicles how these two men, each pursuing what he considered the right and honorable path, collided in violence at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
Chapter 2: “OH GOD, KEEP HIM HUMBLE”
Chapter 3: A QUIET MAN IN THE CORNER
Chapter 4: “THERE WILL BE NO JINGO NONSENSE”
Chapter 5: “THE GOVERNMENT IS BEST WHICH GOVERNS LEAST”
Chapter 7: AN UNLIKELY ANARCHIST
Chapter 8: AN OPEN CASK OF GUNPOWDER
Chapter 9: PROPAGANDA OF THE DEED
Chapter 10: “THE MAINE BLOWN UP!”
Chapter 11: “FIRE AND KILL ALL YOU CAN!”
Chapter 13: A RESPECTABLE TRAMP
Chapter 14: THE “LEAST DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT”
Chapter 15: “THE CHILD HAS GONE CRAZY”
Chapter 18: A COUNTRY “FULL OF SWAGGER”
Chapter 22: “IT IS ALWAYS THE UNEXPECTED THAT HAPPENS, AT LEAST IN MY CASE”
Chapter 26: THE AMERICAN CENTURY
Chapter 28: “SURRENDER OR BE KILLED”
Chapter 29: “HAVE YOU ANY SECRET SOCIETIES?”
Chapter 32: THE OPERATING THEATER
Chapter 33: A PARK RANGER COMES RUNNING
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