President Mckinley, War and Empire - President Mckinley and the Coming of War, 1898

President McKinley and the Coming of War 1898.

List of contents

1: Power and Policymaking: Who Rules?; 2: William McKinley: From Niles to the White House; 3: The New President Selects His Cabinet; 4: The Decision for War; 5: Cuba and the American Press; 6: A Mobilization of the Masses?; 7: Public Pressures and the Congress; 8: On the Various Readings

About the author

Richard F. Hamilton

Summary

The "progressive" reading of history focuses on two major antecedents for the origins of the United States' 1898 war with Spain: the 1896 presidential election and the Hearst-Pulitzer press war that, reportedly, generated an irresistible clamor from an "aroused public

Product details

• Authors: Richard Hamilton, Richard F. Hamilton
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.2017
• EAN: 9781138513570
• ISBN: 978-1-138-51357-0
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: American Presidents Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Politics & government, Politics and government, History of the Americas, The Americas