About the Author

As a correspondent for "The Wall Street Journal" and Reuters news agency, Scott Miller spent nearly two decades in Asia and Europe, reporting from more than twenty-five countries. His articles--covering fields as varied as the Japanese economic collapse, the birth of a single European currency, French culinary traditions, and competitive speed knitting--have also appeared in "The Washington Post" and the "Far Eastern Economic Review," among others. He has been a contributor to CNBC and Britain's Sky News. Miller holds a master's degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge and now lives in Seattle with his wife and two daughters.

Reviews

"[A] panoramic tour de force . . . Miller has a good eye, trained by years of journalism, for telling details and enriching anecdotes."--The Washington Independent Review of Books

"Even without the intrinsic draw of the 1901 presidential assassination that shapes its pages, Scott Miller's "The President and the Assassin "[is] absorbing reading. . . . What makes the book compelling is [that] so many circumstances and events of the earlier time have parallels in our own."--"The Oregonian"

"A marvelous work of history, wonderfully written."--Fareed Zakaria, author of "The Post-American World"

"A real triumph."--"BookPage"

"Fast-moving and richly detailed."--"The Buffalo News"
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"[A] compelling read."--"The Boston Globe"
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One of "Newsweek"'s 10 Must-Read Summer Books

"Scott Miller has written a vivid and insightful story about a nation rich in energy and contradiction on the verge of greatness. A fast-paced read about an astonishing time."

--Evan Thomas, author of" The War Lovers
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"William McKinley's presidency, and the era it spanned, tend to be forgotten, yet it was in those years that the modern American nation, economy, and presidency were forged. Scott Miller describes these years through a joint portrait of the world of McKinley and the man who assassinated him. The result is a marvelous work of history, wonderfully written, told from the top down and the bottom up."

--Fareed Zakaria, author of" The Post-American World
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"Miller's polished and vivid narrative of these complex, dissimilar men makes this piece of Americana appear fresh and unexpected. . . . ["The President and the Assassin"] faithfully captures the turbulent time at the turn of the twentieth century when America faced discord from within and without, and war and an assassin altered America's history."

--"Publishers Weekly
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