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When I picked up this book at the library, I thought that it would be strictly about President William McKinley's shooting in 1901 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Instead, Miller views the September assassination as the culmination of a series of events that occurred in the late 19th century and included the Haymarket Square Riot, the Homestead and Pullman Strikes, the Spanish-American War, and Imperialism. In detailing the history of the U.S. in t
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EXCELLENT! An important time. The end of the Gilded Age, the dawn of the 20th century, and the trucking along of the American Industrial Revolution. Add to that a most fascinating murder by a very strange man of a very decent president. The discussion on anarchism is particularly interesting.
Economic recession, growing wealth gap between the rich and poor, concern about trade with China, panic about terrorism: does any of this sound familiar?
This book gives me a better understanding of how the USA acquired Hawaii and Guam and how we got involved in Cuba and the Philippines in the first place. With 20-20 hindsight, I can understand why some decisions were not great in the long run, although they made sense at the time. I can see echoes of Cuba and the Philippines in our current effor ...more
This book gives me a better understanding of how the USA acquired Hawaii and Guam and how we got involved in Cuba and the Philippines in the first place. With 20-20 hindsight, I can understand why some decisions were not great in the long run, although they made sense at the time. I can see echoes of Cuba and the Philippines in our current effor ...more
A very well-written story that shows how American Imperialism was born.
A lot more info contained in here than I expected. The book actually spends most of the time on the Spanish-American war, not the assassination. Still, I learned a lot about what was going on in the world at the end of 19th century and how it led into the events of the 20th.
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