Books by Eric Rauchway
Murdering McKinley
by Eric Rauchway
Of all the US presidential assassinations (there have been four, and every president since Kennedy to George W Bush has had an assassination attempt), Rauchway describes the 1901 assassination of President McKinley by Leon Czolgosz as being the most dangerously politically motivated. Czolgosz was the son of Polish-Russian immigrants and a self-avowed anarchist. Declared insane and executed, Czolgosz’s crime introduced a wave of fear and suspicion of the immigrant working-class in the United States, but at the same time, as Rauchway argues, forced US policy makers to confront some home truths.
Interviews where books by Eric Rauchway were recommended
The best books on Assassination, recommended by Lindsay Porter
Lindsay Porter, author and cultural historian who has published widely on conspiracy theories, discusses five books on the different concepts of politically motivated killing and asks whether assassination can ever be justified
