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Assassinations, threats, and the American presidency : from Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama / Ronald L. Feinman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feinman, Ronald L., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--Assassination--United States--History.
- Presidents.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents--Protection--United States--History.
- Presidential candidates--Assassination attempts--United States--History.
- Presidential candidates.
- Presidents--Assassination attempts--United States--History.
- United States--Secret service--History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2017.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Andrew Jackson at the U.S. Capitol; 2 Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre; 3 James A. Garfield at the D.C. Railroad Station; 4 William McKinley at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition; 5 Theodore Roosevelt at the Milwaukee Gilpatrick Hotel; 6 Franklin D. Roosevelt at Miami Bayfront Park; 7 Huey P. Long at the Louisiana State Capitol; 8 Harry S. Truman at Blair House; 9 John F. Kennedy at Dealey Plaza; 10 Robert F. Kennedy at the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel; 11 George C. Wallace at Laurel, Maryland, Shopping Center
- 12 Richard M. Nixon and the Baltimore Airport Incident13 Gerald R. Ford at Sacramento and San Francisco; 14 Ronald Reagan at the Washington Hilton Hotel; 15 Late Twentieth-Century Presidents and Assassination Threats; 16 Twenty-first-Century Presidents and Assassination Threats; 17 Fifteen "Might Have Been" Presidents in History; Appendix; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-243) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-42001-9
- 979-82-16-23492-0
- 1-4422-3122-X
- OCLC:
- 914230392
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