Ohio’s Kingmaker: Mark Hanna, Man and MythOhio University Press, 2010 M03 4 - 360 pages For a decade straddling the turn of the twentieth century, Mark Hanna was one of the most famous men in America. Portrayed as the puppet master controlling the weak-willed William McKinley, Hanna was loved by most Republicans and reviled by Democrats, in large part because of the way he was portrayed by the media of the day. Newspapers and other media outlets that supported McKinley reported positively about Hanna, but those sympathetic to William Jennings Bryan, the Democrats’ presidential nominee in 1896 and 1900, attacked Hanna far more aggressively than they attacked McKinley himself. Their portrayal of Hanna was wrong, but powerful, and this negative image of him survives to this day. |
Contents
1880Hanna Buys Trouble with the Press and Helps Elect Garfield | |
The Sherman Years | |
The Wilderness Years 188892 | |
The Hearst Effect on the HannaMcKinley Legacy | |
The Campaign of 1896 Battling Bryan | |
Mr Hanna Goes to the Senate | |
The Country Goes to War | |
Election 1900 | |
Mark Hannas Legacy in the Twentyfirst Century | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
The Campaign of 1896 The Issues McKinley and Hanna | |
The Campaign of 1896 The Nomination of William McKinley | |