Plotting to Kill the President : Assassination Attempts from Washington to Hoover /

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"A history of plotters, would-be assassins, and individuals who have threatened the lives of American presidents from Washington to Hoover and the story of the guards, agents, and officers who protected them"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ayton, Mel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Presidents > Assassination attempts.
Presidents > Assassination.
Presidents.
Assassins.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Presidents > Tentatives d'assassinat > États-Unis > Histoire.
Assassins > United States > Biography.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Presidents > Assassination attempts > United States > History.
Presidents > Assassination > United States > History.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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