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The Anarchist Who Shot the President
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On September 6, 1901, an Anarchist Steelworker named Leon Czolgosz shot and killed the President of the United States, William McKinley. This assassination led to a xenophobic panic, sometimes described as a historical war on terror, that went on to shape American political culture forever. Let's talk about it.
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Butterworth, Alex. The World that Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents, 2010
Fine, Sidney. Anarchism and the Assassination of McKinley, 1955.
Miller, Scott. The President and the Assassin, Terror and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century, 2011.
Shone, Steve J. American Anarchism, 2013.
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