Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Chapter 1 1890: The Federal Voting Rights Bill 1
Chapter 2 McKinley's War 13
Chapter 3 "Let Us Change the Order" 26
Chapter 4 Early Years in Congress 42
Chapter 5 Marcus Alonzo Hanna 54
Chapter 6 From Congressman to Governor 59
Chapter 7 With a Little Help from His Friends 67
Chapter 8 McKinley and the Lynch Mob 73
Chapter 9 Southern Route to the Nomination 83
Chapter 10 Against the Republican Establishment 89
Chapter 11 St. Louis, June 16, 1896 99
Chapter 12 Chicago, July 7, 1896 107
Chapter 13 "Man of Mark" 118
Chapter 14 The Campaign of 1896 122
Chapter 15 McKinley's Front Porch 134
Chapter 16 The Money Pours In 145
Chapter 17 Election Day 150
Chapter 18 Homer Plessy 160
The McKinley Presidency
Chapter 19 Appointments 171
Chapter 20 A New President Takes Charge 183
Chapter 21 The Cuban Revolution and the Maine 198
Chapter 22 The Inevitability of War 209
Chapter 23 War! 226
Chapter 24 Battle of Manila Bay 242
Chapter 25 Hawaii 254
Chapter 26 Invading Cuba 262
Chapter 27 San Juan Hill and Santiago 273
Chapter 28 Crisis in the Army 282
Chapter 29 McKinley's Peace Commission 289
Chapter 30 Why the Philippines? 294
Chapter 31 Making a Treaty 304
Chapter 32 Violence in South Carolina 312
Chapter 33 Wilmington, North Carolina 318
Chapter 34 McKinley and Washington 330
Chapter 35 The Senate, the Treaty, and War 340
Chapter 36 A New Secretary of War 351
Chapter 37 McKinley, Root, and the War 359
Chapter 38 William Howard Taft and the Philippines 367
Chapter 39 The Cuban Occupation 375
Chapter 40 China 389
Chapter 41 Black America, 1900 399
Chapter 42 Bryan, Roosevelt, and McKinley, 1900 413
Chapter 43 The Second Term 421
Chapter 44 The Southern Question 435
Chapter 45 Assassination 445
Last Word 457
Bibliography 465
Index 487
