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1 online resource (xiii, 328 pages) : illustrations |
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online resource cr |
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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ISBN |
9781612348797 (electronic bk.) |
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1612348793 (electronic bk.) |
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9781612348810 (electronic bk.) |
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1612348815 (electronic bk.) |
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9781612348803 (electronic bk.) |
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1612348807 (electronic bk.) |
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