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　　A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE

IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL

DAY

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 into stark relief the emerging new world order of

what would come to be known as the American Century. The President

and the Assassin is the story of the momentous years leading up to

that event, and of the very different paths that brought together

two of the most compelling figures of the era: President William

McKinley and Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist who murdered him.

The two men seemed to live in eerily parallel Americas. McKinley

was to his contemporaries an enigma, a president whose conflicted

feelings about imperialism reflected the country’s own. Under its

popular Republican commander-in-chief, the United States was

undergoing an uneasy transition from a simple agrarian society to

an industrial powerhouse spreading its influence overseas by force

of arms. Czolgosz was on the losing end of the economic changes

taking place—a first-generation Polish immigrant and factory worker

sickened by a government that seemed focused solely on making the

rich richer. With a deft narrative hand, journalist Scott Miller

chronicles how these two men, each pursuing what he considered the

right and honorable path, collided in violence at the 1901

Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

Along the way, readers meet a veritable who’s who of

turn-of-the-century America: John Hay, McKinley’s visionary

secretary of state, whose diplomatic efforts paved the way for a

half century of Western exploitation of China; Emma Goldman, the

radical anarchist whose incendiary rhetoric inspired Czolgosz to

dare the unthinkable; and Theodore Roosevelt, the vainglorious vice

president whose 1898 charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba is but one of

many thrilling military adventures recounted here.

Rich with relevance to our own era, The President and the

Assassin holds a mirror up to a fascinating period of upheaval when

the titans of industry grew fat, speculators sought fortune abroad,

and desperate souls turned to terrorism in a vain attempt to thwart

the juggernaut of change.

TEMPLE OF MUSIC

"OH GOD, KEEP HIM HUMBLE"

A QtUIET MAN IN THE CORNER

"THERE WILL BE NO JINGO NONSENSE"

"THE GOVERNMENT IS BEST WHICH GOVERNS LEAST"

THE HAWAIIAN ANVIL

AN UNLIKELY ANARCHIST

AN OPEN CASK OF GUNPOWDER

PROPAGANDA OF THE DEED

"THE XAIIYE BLOWN UP!"

"FIRE AND KILL ALL YOU CANT"

DEWEY AT MANILA

A RESPECTABLE TRAMP

　　As a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and

Reuters news agency, Scott Miller spent nearly two decades

in Asia and Europe, reporting from more than twenty-five countries.

His articles—covering fields as varied as the Japanese economic

collapse, the birth of a single European currency, French culinary

traditions, and competitive speed knitting—have also appeared in

The Washington Post and the Far Eastern Economic

Review, among others. He has been a contributor to CNBC and

Britain’s Sky News. Miller holds a master’s degree in international

relations from the University of Cambridge and now lives in Seattle

with his wife and two daughters.

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书籍介绍

A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY

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 into stark relief the emerging new world order of what would come to be known as the American Century. The President and the Assassin is the story of the momentous years leading up to that event, and of the very different paths that brought together two of the most compelling figures of the era: President William McKinley and Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist who murdered him.

The two men seemed to live in eerily parallel Americas. McKinley was to his contemporaries an enigma, a president whose conflicted feelings about imperialism reflected the country’s own. Under its popular Republican commander-in-chief, the United States was undergoing an uneasy transition from a simple agrarian society to an industrial powerhouse spreading its influence overseas by force of arms. Czolgosz was on the losing end of the economic changes taking place—a first-generation Polish immigrant and factory worker sickened by a government that seemed focused solely on making the rich richer. With a deft narrative hand, journalist Scott Miller chronicles how these two men, each pursuing what he considered the right and honorable path, collided in violence at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

Along the way, readers meet a veritable who’s who of turn-of-the-century America: John Hay, McKinley’s visionary secretary of state, whose diplomatic efforts paved the way for a half century of Western exploitation of China; Emma Goldman, the radical anarchist whose incendiary rhetoric inspired Czolgosz to dare the unthinkable; and Theodore Roosevelt, the vainglorious vice president whose 1898 charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba is but one of many thrilling military adventures recounted here.

Rich with relevance to our own era, The President and the Assassin holds a mirror up to a fascinating period of upheaval when the titans of industry grew fat, speculators sought fortune abroad, and desperate souls turned to terrorism in a vain attempt to thwart the juggernaut of change.

Praise for The President and the Assassin

“[A] panoramic tour de force . . . Miller has a good eye, trained by years of journalism, for telling details and enriching anecdotes.”—The Washington Independent Review of Books

“Even without the intrinsic draw of the 1901 presidential assassination that shapes its pages, Scott Miller’s The President and the Assassin [is] absorbing reading. . . . What makes the book compelling is [that] so many circumstances and events of the earlier time have parallels in our own.”— The Oregonian

“A marvelous work of history, wonderfully written.”—Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World

“A real triumph.”— BookPage

“Fast-moving and richly detailed.”— The Buffalo News

“[A] compelling read.”— The Boston Globe

One of Newsweek ’s 10 Must-Read Summer Books