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Author
Series
American presidents series) volume 25
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 188 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 422 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., ports ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of the assassination of William McKinley places events against a backdrop of a rapidly changing, newly industrial nation that McKinley regarded as increasingly great while his assassin became obsessed with poverty and injustice.
Author
Language
English
Description
"How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing governments. Then we retreat -- until the cycle begins again. No matter how often we debate this question, none of what we say is original. Every argument is a pale shadow of the first and greatest debate, which erupted more than a century ago. Its themes resurface every time Americans argue whether to...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 471p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of "Sea of Thunder" comes a riveting narrative about America's ferocious drive towards empire during the Gilded Age, and the uncanny resemblance of the Spanish-American War to the Iraq War of today.
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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 the President. While uncovering the answer that eluded Briggs and setting...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (ca. 14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of "Sea of Thunder" comes a riveting narrative about America's ferocious drive towards empire during the Gilded Age, and the uncanny resemblance of the Spanish-American War to the Iraq War of today.
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