Complete Life of William McKinley and Story of His Assassination: An Authentic and Official Memorial Edition, Containing Every Incident in the Career of the Immortal Statesmen (1901)

Marshall Everett (1863-1939) was a famous descriptive writer and historian during the turn of the 20th century. William McKinley (1843 – 1901) was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term. McKinley led the nation to victory in the Spanish–American War, raised protective tariffs to promote American industry, and maintained the nation on the gold standard in a rejection of inflationary proposals. McKinley was the last president to have served in the American Civil War, beginning as a private in the Union Army and ending as a brevet major. No figure of modern American history appeals so strongly to the patriotism and love of the American people as William McKinley, and no volume can have greater interest and value at the present day, or be more dearly prized, than a history of his life in which every event of his great career as a noble youth, a gallant soldier, an able lawyer, a brilliant orator, a grand statesman, a brave patriot and an heroic martyr is set forth accurately, and in a spirit of love and reverence. This volume is in every respect truly a memorial edition of the Complete Life of William McKinley, whose memory will ever remain in the minds of loyal Americans inseparably associated with his two fellow martyr-Presidents, Lincoln and Garfield, and the record of whose patriotic and noble life is contained herein. TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY. CHAPTER II. PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S FIGHT FOR LIFE. CHAPTER III. DEATHBED SCENE OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY. CHAPTER IV. THE STORY OF THE ASSASSIN. CHAPTER V. EMMA GOLDMAN, WOMAN LEADER OF ANARCHISTS. CHAPTER VI. ANARCHISM AND ITS OBJECTS. CHAPTER VII. SCENES AT BUFFALO FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION. CHAPTER VIII. DAYS OF ANXIETY AND SORROW. CHAPTER IX. PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S LAST SPEECH. CHAPTER X. WILLIAM McKINLEY'S BOYHOOD. CHAPTER XI. McKINLEY AS A SOLDIER IN THE CIVIL WAR. CHAPTER XII. McKINLEY IN CONGRESS. CHAPTER XIII. McKINLEY'S LIFE WAS PROTECTION'S ERA. CHAPTER XIV. McKINLEY AS GOVERNOR OF OHIO. CHAPTER XV. McKINLEY AS A CAMPAIGNER. CHAPTER XVI. GOVERNOR McKINLEY'S FINANCIAL TROUBLES. CHAPTER XVII. McKINLEY'S LOYALTY TO SHERMAN, BLAINE AND HARRISON. CHAPTER XVIII. FIRST NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT. CHAPTER XIX. THE GREAT CAMPAIGN OF 1896. CHAPTER XX. THE SPANISH WAR CLOUD. CHAPTER XXI. McKINLEY'S OWN STORY OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. CHAPTER XXII. McKINLEY AND EXPANSION. CHAPTER XXIII. SECOND PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF McKINLEY. CHAPTER XXIV. PRESIDENT McKINLEY AND THE CHINESE CRISIS. CHAPTER XXV. McKINLEY: BUILDER OF A WORLD POWER. CHAPTER XXVI. PRIVATE LIFE OF WILLIAM McKINLEY. CHAPTER XXVII. McKINLEY'S EULOGY OF LINCOLN. CHAPTER XVIII. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TAKES THE OATH OF OFFICE. CHAPTER XXIX. GREAT EVENTS OF THE WORLD DURING PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S ADMINISTRATION. CHAPTER XXX.