![]() ![]() ![]() Miller give a fair and interesting description of how the US soon found itself in conflicts in Cuba and the Philippines and how those conflicts were fueled by cheerleaders like William Randall Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer and the popular Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt. He came into office denying any expansionist ambitions, but quickly found his nation in conflict with Spain over the fate of an island south of Florida called Cuba. McKinley was the last of the Civil War veterans to become President. In alternating chapters, Miller tells us about President William McKinley and the nation he lived in, and about the conditions of the working man from which his assassin Leon Czolgosz emerged, until their two paths converged one day in Buffalo. Manifest destiny took another step as the nation expanded from a continental one to one possessing overseas territories. ![]() Scott Miller's 2011 book The President and the Assassin explores an important period in American history, the turn of the last century, when the United States made the transition from fledgling nation to world power. ![]()
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