For adults there were inspirational works, Orison Swett Marden's Pushing to the Front and Russell Conwell's Acres of Diamonds both with sales of several million. Other best sellers had religious themes, two of the leaders being Ben-Hur ...
This second volume of President McKinley, War and Empire assesses five theories that have dominated analysis of modern societies in the last century--liberalism, Marxism, mass society, pluralism, and elitism--in accounting for an aberrant ...
Axel Madsen, John Jacob Astor: America's First Multimillionaire (New York, 2001). There is no book-length biography of Longworth, but see the brief entry in ANB, 13:898–899. See also Richard C. Wade, The Urban Frontier: The Rise of ...
President McKinley, War and Empire
President McKinley, War and Empire
This work provides an original assessment of those long-standing claims, the basic elements of the progressive history.
McKinley and his advisors fended off those demands as best they could but, following the sinking of the Maine, he conceded and asked Congress to authorize intervention.This work provides an original assessment of those long-standing claims, ...