Sense of duty -- Early beginnings -- Political apprenticeship -- Rise and fall -- Three steps closer, one step back -- Resurrection -- The Major's war plan -- Audacious first strike -- The people ...
1896 : the party background -- The Democrats in power, 1893-1896 -- "The people against the bosses" : the Republican nomination of William McKinley -- Democrats divided : the Democratic convention at ...
Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller swears-in William McKinley as president as President Grover Cleveland watches on March 4, 1897. (Library of Congress via AP) When most presidents cite illustrious ...