“President William McKinley, the 25th President of the United ... on his support for the gold standard and “the full dinner pail.” He died soon after being shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz ...

And it is perhaps appropriate that, in pursuing his heady aims, he should single out for praise and guidance William McKinley of Ohio — a Civil War hero, congressman, and governor twice elected ...

William McKinley belongs, in many ways, to the in-between period of history that Americans are most apt to overlook. The last of the Civil War veterans to serve as president, McKinley is often ...