McKinley's life, from his election to Congress in 1876, until the close of his career, was so interwoven with the vast political and economic changes which marked the last quarter of the nineteenth century, that any complete account of it must be historical as well as biographical. Contents: Intervention; Spanish American War; Wave of Criticism; Peace Negotiations; Making of the Philippines; New Government in the Antilles; China; Renomination and Reelection; Tragedy at Buffalo. Illustrated.