Plotting to kill the president : assassination attempts from Washington to Hoover /

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"Since the birth of our nation and the election of the first president, groups of organized plotters or individuals have been determined to assassinate the chief executive. From the Founding Fathers to the Great Depression, three presidents have been assassinated: Abraham Lincoln, James Garfiel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ayton, Mel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
Temas:
Presidents > Assassination > United States > History.
Presidents > Assassination attempts > United States > History.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Assassins > United States > Biography.
Présidents > Tentatives d'assassinat > États-Unis > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Assassins.
Presidents.
Presidents > Assassination.
Presidents > Assassination attempts.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Guarding the early presidents
  • The first attack on an American president
  • The antebellum presidents
  • Protecting Abraham Lincoln
  • The reconstruction presidents
  • James Garfield's assassination and Chester Arthur's "near miss"
  • The attempted assassination of Benjamin Harrison
  • The plots to kill Grover Cleveland
  • The anarchists and William McKinley
  • The assassination attempts against Theodore Roosevelt
  • Targeting William Howard Taft
  • The stalking of Woodrow Wilson
  • Harding, Coolidge, and the Secret Service
  • The Argentinean plot to assassinate Herbert Hoover
  • Afterword: notoriety, the copycat effect, and the presidential secrecy.

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