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...Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech. A first-rate biography which, if it leaves Mark Hanna's tame president as colorless as ever, also leaves him better understood...
...Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech. Pulitzer Prizewinner Leech's thoughtful recollection of a widely loved President who remained as colorless as a leader as he was gentle...
...days of President McKinley, many an American might have answered, "What leader?" Few U.S. Presidents have exerted so colorless a leadership from the White House, and few have faded so quickly from the nation's memory. In a new biography, Pulitzer Prizewinner Margaret (Reveille in Washington) Leech thoughtfully recalls a President who was widely loved, sincerely devoted to his country and to the Christian virtues, but who remained even in historic moments (as Author Leech puts it) "the captive of caution and indirection." Her biography gives McKinley his due and his comeuppance too. If he remains as short...
...gold standard). Sitting out the first presidential campaign (on his front porch in Canton, Ohio) against Bryan in 1896, he must have been shocked by the Nebraskan's notion that mankind was being "crucified on a cross of gold." The voters agreed with McKinley, and Author Leech emphasizes what is really at the heart of the McKinley story: this hymn-loving, humanity-loving man of the people was as much the favorite of the wage earners as he was the darling of the millionaire industrialists...
...only blind party loyalty could account for his devotion. His political mentor, Senator Mark Hanna of Ohio, was so obviously the errand boy of the trusts that not even the wildest admirer of McKinley could hope to explain away the President's regard for big business. Yet Author Leech shows McKinley as his own man. If he rooted for the trusts, it was because he believed that business and U.S. destiny were on the same path. If he took the U.S. into war and a great-power role, it was because he knew that the hour had struck...