{"product_id":"book-awvz","title":"The Temple of Music","description":"America is starkly divided between the haves and the have-nots. A Republican president   seeks reelection in the afterglow of a war many view as unnecessary and imperialisttic.   He is bankrolled by millionaires, with every step of his career orchestrated by a   political mastermind. Religious extremists crusade against the nation’s moral collapse.   Terrorists plot the assassination of leaders around the world. And a lonely, disturbed   revolutionary stalks the President. . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It all happened. One hundred years ago.    It all comes to life in \u003ci\u003eThe Temple of Music\u003c\/i\u003e.      \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A vivid, gripping historical   novel of the Gilded Age, \u003ci\u003eThe Temple of Music\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Temple of Music\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Temple of Music\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sweeping in scope, \u003ci\u003eThe Temple of Music\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare literary achievement that intertwines   history and fiction into an indelible tapestry of America at the dawn of the twentieth   century.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49341426499888,"sku":"BDawvz","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/230028-awvz-Square.jpg?v=1734061553","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-awvz","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}