The Temple of Music
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The Temple of Music
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Stephen Hoye
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Jonathan Lowy
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It all happened. One hundred years ago. It all comes to life in The Temple of Music.
A vivid, gripping historical novel of the Gilded Age, The Temple of Music re-creates the larger-than-life characters and tempestuous events that rocked turn-of-the-century America. From battlefields to political backrooms, from romance to murder, The Temple of Music tells the tales of robber barons, immigrants, yellow journalists, and anarchists, all centering on one of the most fascinating, mysterious, but little-explored events in American history: the assassination of President William McKinley by the disturbed anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
The Temple of Music brings to life the intrigues and passions, the hatreds and loves of a rich cast of real-life characters, including Emma Goldman, the passionate anarchist who forsakes her personal life to fight for workers’ rights and free love; her imprisoned lover, the failed assassin Alexander Berkman; corrupt kingmaker “Dollar” Mark Hanna, whose fund-raising and strategizing foreshadowed how modern presidential campaigns would be run; William Jennings Bryan, the populist orator and chief political rival of McKinley; flamboyant newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst; self-appointed morality czar Anthony Comstock; steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie; and Carnegie’s iron-fisted manager, Henry Clay Frick. At the center of this tableau is William McKinley, the president, and Leon Czolgosz, his assassin. McKinley rises to the presidency almost by accident, floating on the money and political clout of Mark Hanna. Sober and unimaginative, McKinley’s personal life is marked by drama and tragedy, the unstable wife he loves, and enemies he cannot imagine—chief among them, Leon Czolgosz, a lonely immigrant and factory worker who plots the most spectacular protest in an age of spectacular protests—McKinley’s assassination at the 1901 Buffalo World’s Fair.
Sweeping in scope, The Temple of Music is a rare literary achievement that intertwines history and fiction into an indelible tapestry of America at the dawn of the twentieth century.©2004 Jonathan Lowy; (P)2004 Books on Tape, Inc.
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Commentaires
"A big, bold, and absolutely breathtaking work of historical fiction. The only thing more impressive than Jonathan Lowy's remarkable research is the richness of his characterizations." —Chris Bohjalian, author of Midwives and Before You Know Kindness
“Invigorating . . . The novel’s clarion style is modulated by intimate details . . .” —Boston Globe
“Beautifully researched and cunningly written.” —Buffalo News
“A high-water mark in the ongoing renaissance of the historical novel.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Invigorating . . . The novel’s clarion style is modulated by intimate details . . .” —Boston Globe
“Beautifully researched and cunningly written.” —Buffalo News
“A high-water mark in the ongoing renaissance of the historical novel.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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