The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)

by Richard White

McKinley had rebounded quickly from his 1890 defeat. He won election as governor of Ohio in 1891, but the combination of the Panic of 1893 and his own carelessness, misjudgment, and devotion to friends nearly undid him.