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Throughout American history, Presidents and Presidential candidates have faced countless assassination threats and attempts on their lives. These threats have extended not only to sitting Presidents and candidates but also to Presidents-elect and former Presidents. Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama walks through Presidential history, looking at the countless assassination threats and attempts that have occurred throughout history. Historian Ronald L. Feinman discusses the Presidencies of sixteen Presidents, as well as three important candidates and five living Presidents today, and how they were directly threatened with assassination, ranging from the first known threat to Andrew Jackson in 1833, to threats to Barack Obama in late 2014.
About the Author
Dr. Ronald Feinman, The Progressive Professor, is a professor of American History, Government and Politics, as well as a blogger and lecturer on modern American topics. He is also a blogger at http://theprogressiveprofessor.com/ and the author of two books:
- Twilight of Progressivism: The Western Republican Senators and the New Deal (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981)
- Assassinations, Threats and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)
Dr. Feinman studied under Professor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, Pulitzer Prize winning historian, and sponsor of his dissertation, who was Albert Schweitzer Professor of the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center from 1966-1993.
