Plotting to Kill the President : Assassination Attempts from Washington to Hoover /
"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"--
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press,
[2017]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.