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1 online resource (221 pages)
ISBN:
9780875865782
Content:
This biography, focused on McKinley's unusual view of protectionism, a labor-business alliance, and American exceptionalism, offers striking parallels to today as the US struggles to define its international role and to determine the best blend of free trade, protectionism, and immigration. William McKinley was the first US president to address globalization; his legacy in protectionism and immigrant labor offer lessons for the current era. He orchestrated an alliance between big business and the American worker that ushered in one of the greatest periods of growth ever known in the US economy. Yet McKinley has been in the shadow of his successor Theodore Roosevelt for over a hundred years. As Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, McKinley had forged a tariff bill in 1888 that united a nation that was still divided between North and South, East and West. His continued efforts to support free trade, protected by managed markets in the tradition of Henry Clay, and worker benefits like those provide by George Westinghouse, led to a great economic compromise. Further, with revolutionary, visionary rhetoric laden with America's economic manifest destiny he appealed to everyone from the steelworkers of Pittsburgh to the New York bankers. He articulated a uniting philosophy: Free trade in the United States is founded upon a community of equalities and reciprocities...[F]ree foreign trade admits the foreigner to equal privileges with our citizens. It invites the product of foreign cheap labor to this market in competition with the domestic, representing better paid labor [albeit with tariffs to protect that domestic product]. McKinley's vision built the industrial base of the nation. By the end of his presidency the American steel, glass, rubber, oil, machinery and electrical appliance industries dominated the world. He was one of America's most
Content:
Intro -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Prologue -- Chapter 2. Legacy of Henry Clay's American System -- Chapter 3. The Formative Years in an Industrial Family -- Chapter 4. Major McKinley and War Logistics -- Chapter 5. Canton Lawyer -- Chapter 6. Congressman McKinley -- Chapter 7. The Napoleon of Protection - The McKinley Tariff Bill of 1890 -- Chapter 8. Governor McKinley -- Chapter 9. The World turned upside Down - the Cleveland Administration -- Chapter 10. Pre-Presidential Campaign -- Chapter 11. The Campaign of 1896 -- Chapter 12. President McKinley -- Chapter 13. The Last Term and a New Vision -- Chapter 14. A Tale of Two Cities: Socialism and Capitalism -- Chapter 15. Dinner-Pail Republicanism - McKinley's Industrial Legacy -- Chapter 16. McKinley's Labor Alliance - The People's Legacy -- Chapter 17. A New Middle Class and the American System -- Chapter 18. McKinley, Capitalism, and Trusts -- Chapter 19. McKinley's Place in History -- Bibliography -- Manuscripts and Archives -- Index.
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780875865768
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Print version William McKinley : Apostle of Protectionism
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English
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