President McKinley, War and Empire: President McKinley and the Coming of War, 1898
, by Hamilton,Richard- ISBN: 9780765803290 | 0765803291
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 7/15/2006
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.” Underlying those narratives are two very different theoretical frameworks: a class-dominance view and that of the mass society. Volume 1 of President McKinley, War and Empire assesses the adequacy of those readings.