William McKinley: A Resource Guide

Prosperity at home, prestige abroad. 1 print (poster). [between 1895 and 1900] Prints & Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-1329

Selected Bibliography

The Library of Congress online catalog contains more than seventy subject headings for books related to William McKinley. To find works on any of these topics, select Basic Search, and enter the words McKinley, William, 1843-1901 into the search box; then choose the Subject Browse option. You will get the list of McKinley-related subject headings. Click on any heading to see a list of titles that have that subject heading and click on any of the titles to access the book's bibliographic record.

From among the hundreds of McKinley-related titles in the Library of Congress collections, the bibliography below highlights the most significant editions of works by McKinley and a limited selection of biographies and other works particularly useful to general and younger readers.

Selected Works by William McKinley

McKinley, William. Speeches and Addresses of William McKinley, from His Election to Congress to the Present Time. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893.
LC Call Number: E660 .M145 [Catalog Record]

-----. Speeches and Addresses of William McKinley, from March 1, 1897 to May 30, 1900. New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1900.
LC Call Number: E660 .M17 [Catalog Record]

-----. The Tariff: A Review of the Tariff Legislation of the United States from 1812 to 1896. New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904.
LC Call Number: HF1753 .M16 [Catalog Record]

Paget, R. L. ed. McKinley’s Masterpieces: Selections from the Public Addresses in and out of Congress, of William McKinley. Boston: Joseph Knight, 1896.
LC Call Number: E660 .M16 [Catalog Record]

Selected Biographies and other Studies of McKinley

Armstrong, William H. Major McKinley: William McKinley and the Civil War. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2000.
LC Call Number: E711.6 .A76 2000 [Catalog Record]

Dobson, John M. Reticent Expansionism: The Foreign Policy of William McKinley. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1988.
LC Call Number: E713 .D63 1988 [Catalog Record]

Gould, Lewis L. The Presidency of William McKinley. Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1980.
LC Call Number: E711 .G68 [Catalog Record]

-----. The Spanish-American War and President McKinley. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1982.
LC Call Number: E715 .G66 1982 [Catalog Record]

Hamilton, Richard F. President McKinley, War and Empire. 2 vols. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 2006-07.
LC Call Number: E721 .H36 2006 [Catalog Record]

Leech, Margaret. In the Days of McKinley. New York: Harper, 1959.
LC Call Number: E711.6 .L4 [Catalog Record]

Morgan, H. Wayne. William McKinley and His America. Rev. ed. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2003.
LC Call Number: E711.6 .M7 2003 [Catalog Record]

Olcott, Charles S. The Life of William McKinley. 2 vols. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916.
LC Call Number: E711.6 .O43 [Catalog Record]
Note: This work has been made available on the Internet Archive, volume 1 and volume 2.

Phillips, Kevin. William McKinley. New York: Times Books, 2003.
LC Call Number: E711.6 .P47 2003 [Catalog Record]

Bibliographies

Gould, Lewis L., and Craig H. Roell, comps. William McKinley: A Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1988.
LC Call Number: Z8561.18 .G68 1988 [Catalog Record]

Sayler, James, comp. Presidents of the United States--Their Written Measure: A Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1996.
LC Call Number: Z1249.P7 S29 1996 [Catalog Record]

Younger Readers

Collins, David R. William McKinley, 25th President of the United States. Ada, Okla.: Garrett Educational Corp., 1990.
LC Call Number: E711.6 .C65 1990 [Catalog Record]

Doak, Robin S. William McKinley. Minneapolis: Compass Point Books, 2004.
LC Call Number: E711.6 .D63 2004 [Catalog Record]

Edge, Laura Bufano. William McKinley. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books, 2007.
LC Call Number: E711.6 .E23 2007 [Catalog Record]

Kent, Zachary. William McKinley: Twenty-Fifth President of the United States. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1988.
LC Call Number: E711.6 .K46 1988 [Catalog Record]

Riehecky, Janet. William McKinley: America’s 25th President. New York: Children’s Press, 2004.
LC Call Number: E711.6 .R54 2004 [Catalog Record]