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The Assassination of William Mckinley
Anarchism, Insanity, and the Birth of the Social Sciences
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2017
Summary
This book is an examination of the assassination of President William McKinley by Leon Czolgosz, an American-born purported anarchist. This work offers a new and different way to approach historical crime stories. Rather than accepting the idea that Czolgosz was inherently dangerous because of his ethnic background or his obscure political statements, Federman argues, rather, that political relations, historical events, and the developing discourses in the natural and social sciences toward normal and pathological behaviors structured the meaning of the assassination. Federman proposes there are six ways to view an assassin, each corresponding to a social science. Consequently, each chapter of this manuscript examines a social science and its relation to the assassination. Overall, there are three purposes to this work: One is to examine the rise of the social sciences at the time of the assassination. The second is to explore the historical and political understanding of political violence; and the third is to examine the meaning of legal responsibility.
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2017
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-6550-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-6551-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
276
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Dramatis Personae No access
Education No access
Panics No access
Secret Agent No access
Mental Health No access
Sex No access
Conclusion No access
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Truths And Methods No access
Social Forces No access
Social Control No access
Conclusion No access
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Re-evaluating Responsibility No access
Criminal Responsibility From Mcnaughtan To Czolgosz No access
