This book has been the standard authority for many years and justly so. Its list of contributors lifts it far above the commonplace, and infinitely removes it from the possibility of political coloring or sectionalism. The article on President McKinley gives a brief and accurate résumé of the Spanish war while the book as a whole is a composite review of the constitutional history of the United States with the White House as the keynote.
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