"The author doesn't emphasize his book's contemporary resonances, but he doesn't need to. They're evident when he summarizes public support for the roundup of anarchists: 'This … was no time for civil liberties. The very fabric of their society was at risk.' Miller's depiction of national liberation movements supported only when they served the United States' commercial and strategic interests doesn't seem outdated as we consider our government's various responses to the ongoing uprisings in the Middle East. The argument that business works best when left to its own unregulated devices has not gone out of fashion. Terrorism remains the weapon of the furious and powerless."
In the Los Angeles Times, Wendy Smith reviews Scott Miller's The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century.
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