This political biography of William McKinley judges the assassinated president to have been "the world's greatest capitalist." It challenges portrayals of McKinley as a tool of big business in
the incarnation of capitalist Mark Hanna; objects to the idea that McKinley's defense of protectionism was poorly articulated and emotionally based; and celebrates his ability to form an
electoral coalition of the second tier nouveau riche capitalists, the middle class, and the working class through his articulation of a vision of idealist capitalism. Annotation 穢2008 Book
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