On September 6, 1901 in Buffalo, New York, the President of the United States, William McKinley, was shot twice in the torso.

Seven days later, he passed away due to an infection.

For the third time in only 36 years, a U.S. President had been assassinated.

Yet few people remember this event or even the President himself.

Learn more about the assassination of President William McKinley on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by Audible.

My audio book recommendation today is The President and the Assassin,

McKinley, Terror and Empire at the dawn of the American century by Scott Miller.

In 1901 is America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion.

An assassin's bullet shattered the nation's confidence.

The shocking murder of President William McKinley

threw into stark relief the emerging new world order of what would become known as the

American century. The president in the assassin is the story of the

momentous years leading up to that event and of the very different paths that brought

together two of the most compelling figures of the era,

President William McKinley and Leanne Cholgash, the anarchist who murdered him.

Scott Miller chronicles how these two men, each pursuing what they considered to be right

and honorable, collided in violence in

1901.

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William McKinley isn't one of the better known U.S. Presidents, which is sort of odd.

For starters, his election in 1896 ushered in an entire reordering of the political system

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