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- Title
McKinley and the Spanish-American War.
- Authors
Offner, John L.
- Abstract
This article describes and analyzes President William McKinley's foreign and domestic policies that led to the Spanish-American War of 1898. On the domestic side it includes congressional partisan politics, economic and business concerns, religious and moral views, cultural biases, and unexpected events that inflamed American patriotism. In foreign affairs it covers U.S. interests in Cuba, McKinley's diplomatic efforts to get Spain to withdraw peacefully from Cuba, and the president's relations with Europe's Great Powers and the pope. The article concludes with an analysis of McKinley's successes and failures.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SPANISH-American War, 1898; POLITICS &; war; FOREIGN relations of the United States -- 1897-1901; SPANISH foreign relations; UNITED States economy; UNITED States history, 1865-1921; REIGN of Alfonso XIII, Spain, 1886-1931
- Publication
Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2004, Vol 34, Issue 1, p50
- ISSN
0360-4918
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1741-5705.2004.00034.x