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Author Ayton, Mel.
Title Plotting to kill the president : assassination attempts from Washington to Hoover / Mel Ayton.
Publisher Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
Copyright date ©2017



Descript 1 online resource (xiii, 328 pages) : illustrations
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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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781612348797 (electronic bk.)
1612348793 (electronic bk.)
9781612348810 (electronic bk.)
1612348815 (electronic bk.)
9781612348803 (electronic bk.)
1612348807 (electronic bk.)
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Author Ayton, Mel.
Subject Presidents -- Assassination -- United States -- History.
Presidents -- Assassination attempts -- United States -- History.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Assassins -- United States -- Biography.
Descript 1 online resource (xiii, 328 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781612348797 (electronic bk.)
1612348793 (electronic bk.)
9781612348810 (electronic bk.)
1612348815 (electronic bk.)
9781612348803 (electronic bk.)
1612348807 (electronic bk.)
Author Ayton, Mel.
Subject Presidents -- Assassination -- United States -- History.
Presidents -- Assassination attempts -- United States -- History.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Assassins -- United States -- Biography.

Subject Presidents -- Assassination -- United States -- History.
Presidents -- Assassination attempts -- United States -- History.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Assassins -- United States -- Biography.
Descript 1 online resource (xiii, 328 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781612348797 (electronic bk.)
1612348793 (electronic bk.)
9781612348810 (electronic bk.)
1612348815 (electronic bk.)
9781612348803 (electronic bk.)
1612348807 (electronic bk.)

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