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This biography introduces readers to William McKinley including his early political and key events from McKinley's administration including the Spanish-American War, the expansion of US territory to include the Hawaiian Islands, and his assassination by Leon F. Czolgosz. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated...

Discusses the assassination of the twenty-fifth president, showing the political situation at the time as well as McKinley's legacy.

This is a biography of the twenty-fifth president of the United States, discussing his personal life, education, and political career.

In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin's bullet shattered the nation's confidence. This book is the story of the momentous years leading up to that event, and of the very different paths that brought together two figures of the era: President William McKinley and anarchist Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist who murdered him. The two men seemed to live in eerily parallel Americas. The United States...

After 4 p.m. on September 6, 1901, 28-year-old anarchist Leon Czolgosz pumps two shots into the chest and abdomen of President William McKinley. Czolgosz had been on a receiving line waiting to shake the president's hand, his revolver concealed in an oversized bandage covering his right hand and wrist. After he is apprehended, Czolgosz says simply, "I done my duty." Both law enforcement and the press insist Czolgosz is merely the tip of a vast and...

By 1900 America, now reaching out for empire, is racked by titanic struggles over its own destiny. The novel re-creates a time that woud be remembered as America's Gilded Age: where political bosses rule, where robber barons fight to consolidate their wealth, and where a yellow headline can lead the country to war.

On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shaking hands with the public at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, when anarchist Leon Czolgosz stepped up and shot McKinley, mortally wounding him. This program details the events in which the 25th President of the United States was assassinated - an action that elevated Vice President Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency, where he would go on to vigorously lead Congress and the...