![]() ![]() It presents details of McKinley’s life growing up in Ohio’s Mahoning Valley, his service in the Civil War and his time as a Canton lawyer, legislator, congressman and governor.īut the main tale is of the 1896 presidential election, which pitted McKinley against Democrat William Jennings Bryan. The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters was published in November. I thought, Someday, I needed to write a book about it.” “I was blown away with how engaged he was and how clearly involved he was in shaping his own future. “I walked away with a picture of McKinley as a fine human being who attracted and kept friends,” Rove says. He finished it as an admirer of McKinley. Rove approached the paper as a devotee of Roosevelt. It stretched from his time as New York City police commissioner in 1895 to his appointment to assistant secretary of the Navy by William McKinley to his role as vice president and, ultimately, president following McKinley’s assassination in 1901. Gould, a professor and expert on Gilded Age American history, Rove penned a 150-page paper on Theodore Roosevelt’s rise to power. ![]() During his years at the University of Texas, Republican political consultant and pundit Karl Rove took a seminar in historical writing. ![]()
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