William McKinley and His America: Second Edition

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When George W. Bush won the White House, he used to be the first incumbent Republican governor elected president since William McKinley in 1896.

William McKinley used to be the last of the Civil War veterans to achieve the White House. Known widely as the Major, in honor of his military rank, he rose through Congress to head the the most important Ways and Means Committee where, in the early 1890s, he passed a strong and popular tariff bill.

That success caught the eye of Marcus Hanna, a Cleveland industrialist with a passion for politics and an ambition to help in making and elect a president. Democrats complained that McKinley used to be a mere puppet of the wealth Hanna, but historians normally consider they were a well-matched team of two strong-willed men. With Hanna’s help, McKinley used to be elected governor of Ohio in 1892.

In 1896 McKinley swept away all rivals to win the presidential nomination on the first ballot. Faced in the general election by the well-respected and highly touted orator William Jennings Bryan, Republicans adopted their “Front Porch Campaign.” Thousands of citizens from across the country were brought to McKinley’s home in Canton for a handshake and a couple of words. Hanna arranged for this $3.5 million campaign to be paid for by big business, with oil baron John D. Rockefeller writing the largest check. McKinley’s factors in his campaign. He became the first presidential candidate in a generation to win a majority of the preferred vote.

McKinley used to be a well-liked president. Pushed reluctantly into the Spanish-American War, McKinley used to be instrumental in starting The us on the path to becoming a global power. He used to be reelected by a landslide in 1901, after delivering a speech at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, he used to be assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz, McKinley’s vice president, Theodore Roosevelt became the nation’s 26th president.

H. Wayne Morgan’s extensively revised and expanded edition of McKinley and His America will prove to be a welcome resource to historians and scholars.

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