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An edition of The Temple of Music (2004)

Temple of music

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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. . . . 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.Praise for Jonathan Lowy's Elvis and Nixon"Imaginative and often hilarious . . . Pop culture and recent history are hog-tied and transmogrified to smashing effect in Lowy's imaginative and often hilarious first novel. He moves among several storylines effortlessly, concocting a darkly comic melodrama the likes of which we haven't seen since The Manchurian Candidate."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[A] high-flying first novel . . . darkly funny."--New York Times Book Review "A snappy blend of fact and fiction."--Time "Inventive, irreverent, and surreal."--Houston Chronicle "[A] darkly humorous look at America under siege . . . A notable debut."--Dallas Morning News "A dizzying blend of fact and fiction . . . A daring debut."--Arizona Republic "There are a few words that fully describe Lowy's Elvis and Nixon--bizarre, confusing, and enlightening, but also hard to put down."--Richmond Times-Dispatch "A garishly readable romp."--Kansas City Star...

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Crown Publishers
Language
English
Pages
329

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The Temple of Music: A Novel
December 27, 2005, Three Rivers Press
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New York

Edition Notes

Genre
Fiction

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3562.O94 T46 2004, PS3562.O94T46 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
329 p.
Number of pages
329

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23273197M
Internet Archive
templeofmusicnov00lowy
ISBN 10
0609608193
LCCN
2003024165
OCLC/WorldCat
53375922
Library Thing
306213

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His mother should not have come here; the trip was arduous, she was getting on in years, and Leon was in her womb, a stowaway on the ship to the new world.
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