The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century

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…

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