Heidi’s Reviews > The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century > Status Update

This is about Europe in the 1890s - “Taken together, the bombings and attacks fit a familiar pattern. They were perpetrated by young men who possessed only a hazy understanding of anarchist theory, who usually felt they had nothing to lose, who were motivated by revenge or the example of someone else, and who were willing to die for their cause.”