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Ragtime in the White House : war, race, and the presidency in the time of William McKinley / Eliot Vestner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vestner, Eliot, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- United States.
- McKinley, William, 1843-1901.
- McKinley, William.
- United States--Politics and government--1897-1901.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 504 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, CT : City Point Press, [2020]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 1890: The Federal Voting Rights Bill
- ch. 2 McKinley's War
- ch. 3 "Let Us Change the Order"
- ch. 4 Early Years in Congress
- ch. 5 Marcus Alonzo Hanna
- ch. 6 From Congressman to Governor
- ch. 7 With a Little Help from His Friends
- ch. 8 McKinley and the Lynch Mob
- ch. 9 Southern Route to the Nomination
- ch. 10 Against the Republican Establishment
- ch. 11 St. Louis, June 16, 1896
- ch. 12 Chicago, July 7, 1896
- ch. 13 "Man of Mark"
- ch. 14 The Campaign of 1896
- ch. 15 McKinley's Front Porch
- ch. 16 The Money Pours In
- ch. 17 Election Day
- ch. 18 Homer Plessy
- THE McKINLEY PRESIDENCY
- ch. 19 Appointments
- ch. 20 A New President Takes Charge
- ch. 21 The Cuban Revolution and the Maine
- ch. 22 The Inevitability of War
- ch. 23 War!
- ch. 24 Battle of Manila Bay
- ch. 25 Hawaii
- ch. 26 Invading Cuba
- ch. 27 San Juan Hill and Santiago
- ch. 28 Crisis in the Army
- ch. 29 McKinley's Peace Commission
- ch. 30 Why the Philippines?
- ch. 31 Making a Treaty
- ch. 32 Violence in South Carolina
- ch. 33 Wilmington, North Carolina
- ch. 34 McKinley and Washington
- ch. 35 The Senate, the Treaty, and War
- ch. 36 A New Secretary of War
- ch. 37 McKinley, Root, and the War
- ch. 38 William Howard Tart and the Philippines
- ch. 39 The Cuban Occupation
- ch. 40 China
- ch. 41 Black America, 1900
- ch. 42 Bryan, Roosevelt, and McKinley, 1900
- ch. 43 The Second Term
- ch. 44 The Southern Question
- ch. 45 Assassination.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page [465]-485) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sylvia W. Kauders Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781947951266
- 1947951262
- OCLC:
- 1192302686
- Publisher Number:
- 99985676766
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