Format:
1 online resource (239 pages)
ISBN:
9781442231221
Content:
This book provides a background on Presidents and Presidential candidates that have been subjected to assassination attempts, or assassinations. Ronald L. Feinman explores the circumstances of each attempt; the Secret Service's response; the victims, public, and media reactions to the assassinations; as well as fifteen "might have been" Presidents.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Andrew Jackson at the U.S. Capitol -- Chapter Two: Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre -- Chapter Three: James A. Garfield at the D.C. Railroad Station -- Chapter Four: William McKinley at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition -- Chapter Five: Theodore Roosevelt at the Milwaukee Gilpatrick Hotel -- Chapter Six: Franklin D. Roosevelt at Miami Bayfront Park -- Chapter Seven: Huey P. Long at the Louisiana State Capitol -- Chapter Eight: Harry S. Truman at Blair House -- Chapter Nine: John F. Kennedy at Dealey Plaza -- Chapter Ten: Robert F. Kennedy at the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel -- Chapter Eleven: George C. Wallace at Laurel, Maryland, Shopping Center -- Chapter Twelve: Richard M. Nixon and the Baltimore Airport Incident -- Chapter Thirteen: Gerald R. Ford at Sacramento and San Francisco -- Chapter Fourteen: Ronald Reagan at the Washington Hilton Hotel -- Chapter Fifteen: Late Twentieth-Century Presidents and Assassination Threats -- Chapter Sixteen: Twenty-first-Century Presidents and Assassination Threats -- Chapter Seventeen: Fifteen "Might Have Been" Presidents in History -- Appendix -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442231214
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781442231214
Language:
English
