President McKinley, War and Empire

The "progressive" reading of history focuses on two major antecedents for the origins of the United States'' 1898 war with Spain: the 1896 presidential election and the Hearst-Pulitzer press war that, reportedly, generated an irresistible clamor from an "aroused public." Underlying those narratives are two very different theoretical frameworks: a class-dominance view and that of the mass society. ...