Robert Merry sets out to revive William McKinley’s middling reputation by recognizing the 25th president as the shrewd, unheralded father of the military-commercial expansionism that underwrote America’s global ...

In the 1890s, in Utica, N.Y., there lived a small-time baker named Joseph Lochner. In surviving pictures, he looks like a Bavarian Yosemite Sam, and he had a personality to ...