A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE
IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL
DAY
In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of
unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin’s bullet shattered
the nation’s confidence. The shocking murder of President William
McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging new world order of
what would come to be known as the American Century. The President
and the Assassin is the story of the momentous years leading up to
that event, and of the very different paths that brought together
two of the most compelling figures of the era: President William
McKinley and Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist who murdered him.
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.
Along the way, readers meet a veritable who’s who of
turn-of-the-century America: John Hay, McKinley’s visionary
secretary of state, whose diplomatic efforts paved the way for a
half century of Western exploitation of China; Emma Goldman, the
radical anarchist whose incendiary rhetoric inspired Czolgosz to
dare the unthinkable; and Theodore Roosevelt, the vainglorious vice
president whose 1898 charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba is but one of
many thrilling military adventures recounted here.
Rich with relevance to our own era, The President and the
Assassin holds a mirror up to a fascinating period of upheaval when
the titans of industry grew fat, speculators sought fortune abroad,
and desperate souls turned to terrorism in a vain attempt to thwart
the juggernaut of change.
關於作者：
As a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and
Reuters news agency, Scott Miller spent nearly two decades
in Asia and Europe, reporting from more than twenty-five countries.
His articles—covering fields as varied as the Japanese economic
collapse, the birth of a single European currency, French culinary
traditions, and competitive speed knitting—have also appeared in
The Washington Post and the Far Eastern Economic
Review, among others. He has been a contributor to CNBC and
Britain’s Sky News. Miller holds a master’s degree in international
relations from the University of Cambridge and now lives in Seattle
with his wife and two daughters.
目錄：
TEMPLE OF MUSIC
"OH GOD, KEEP HIM HUMBLE"
A QtUIET MAN IN THE CORNER
"THERE WILL BE NO JINGO NONSENSE"
"THE GOVERNMENT IS BEST WHICH GOVERNS LEAST"
THE HAWAIIAN ANVIL
AN UNLIKELY ANARCHIST
AN OPEN CASK OF GUNPOWDER
PROPAGANDA OF THE DEED
"THE XAIIYE BLOWN UP!"
"FIRE AND KILL ALL YOU CANT"
DEWEY AT MANILA
A RESPECTABLE TRAMP
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