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Turkey
Turner, George W.
Twain, Mark
Tweed, William “Boss,”
Union Club
Union Pacific Railroad
unions
University of California
University of Michigan
Unquowa
U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Congress
and the Cuban War
George Hearst in
and the Philippine War
and the press
and prizefighting
in the Spanish-American War
U.S. Navy
U.S. Senate
and the Cuban War
Foreign Relations Committee
Naval Affairs Committee
poker game
in the Spanish-American War
U.S. Treasury
utilities, public
Valdez, Gen.
Valencia, Maj.
Vamoose
in the Cuban War
Van Alen, James J.
Vanderbilt, Consuelo
Van Doren, Mark
Vanity Fair
Van Wyck, Robert
venereal disease
Venezuela boundary dispute
Vizcaya
Waba, Asheya.
See
Little Egypt (Asheya Waba)
See
Little Egypt (Asheya Waba)
Waldorf Hotel
War Department
Wardman, Ervin
Washington, George
Washington Gas Light Company
Washington Post
Waters, William “Red,”
Weber, Joe
Westliche Post
Weyler y Nicolau, Valeriano
cartoon of
character
and Clemencia Arango
and Evangelina Cisneros
merchandise featuring
and the press
reassessment of
strategy and tactics
What Interests People—and Why
(Goddard)
(Goddard)
Wheeler, Gen. Joseph
Whistler, James McNeill
White, Stanford
White, Stephen Mallory
White, William Allen
Whitney, William C.
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Wilde, Oscar
Wild West Show
Wilhelm, Kaiser
Wilkerson, Marcus
Willson, Anita
in the Spanish-American War
Willson, George Leslie
Willson, Hannah
Willson, Millicent
marriage
in the Spanish-American War
Wilson, Theodore D.
Winkler, John K.
Wisan, Joseph E.
Wister, Owen
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Woodford, Stewart
Woolworth, F.W.
workday, eight-hour
World. See
New York
World
New York
World
World War I
Worth House (New York)
Wyntoon
XYZ
yachts and yachting
America’s Cup
in the Cuban War
in the Spanish-American War
Yale School of Art
Yale University
Yale University Library
“yellow journalism,”
as term
Yellow Kid
YMCA
Young, Ruby.
See
Clark, Dora (Ruby Young)
See
Clark, Dora (Ruby Young)
Youngstown, Ohio
Zalinski, E.L.
One of Canada’s preeminent journalists, KENNETH WHYTE is the publisher and editor-in-chief of
Maclean’s
, Canada’s weekly current affairs magazine. He served as editor of the monthly
Saturday Night
magazine at the peak of its popularity and as founding editor-in-chief of the
National Post
.
Maclean’s
, Canada’s weekly current affairs magazine. He served as editor of the monthly
Saturday Night
magazine at the peak of its popularity and as founding editor-in-chief of the
National Post
.
a
Historians arguing for lower death tolls tend to trust projections based on a combination of Spanish and U.S.-led censuses. The Spanish numbers are unreliable. Fitzhugh Lee noted in
Cuba’s Struggle Against Spain
(published in 1899) that “no trustworthy census has been taken” in Cuba for fifty years, a view echoed by the Harvard historian John Fiske in his introduction to Grover Flint’s book, and the
Cambridge History of Latin America
(vol. iv). Of equal importance, the U.S.-led censuses of 1899 and 1907 admit to large and inexplicable anomalies. The only other empirical argument for the lower projections is based on reports of Spanish officials in Cuba, which are acknowledged as incomplete. Spanish officers couldn’t even be counted on to report their own casualties reliably.
Cuba’s Struggle Against Spain
(published in 1899) that “no trustworthy census has been taken” in Cuba for fifty years, a view echoed by the Harvard historian John Fiske in his introduction to Grover Flint’s book, and the
Cambridge History of Latin America
(vol. iv). Of equal importance, the U.S.-led censuses of 1899 and 1907 admit to large and inexplicable anomalies. The only other empirical argument for the lower projections is based on reports of Spanish officials in Cuba, which are acknowledged as incomplete. Spanish officers couldn’t even be counted on to report their own casualties reliably.
b
Hearst was probably wrong about the cause of the destruction of the
Maine,
although there is still some uncertainty on that front. McKinley’s naval court of inquiry determined that the ship was sunk by an external blast, as Hearst believed; a second inquiry in 1911, which raised the wreck from Havana harbor and studied it minutely, reached the same conclusion. A 1976 investigation overseen by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, relying on forensic knowledge collected from ships damaged in the Second World War, decided that the explosion likely occurred within the
Maine,
probably as a result of a fire in a coal bunker. In 1999, the National Geographic Society sponsored a computer-aided analysis of the wreck that supported the conclusion of the two initial inquiries. The sinking of the
Maine
is still a mystery but Rickover’s analysis is persuasive.
Maine,
although there is still some uncertainty on that front. McKinley’s naval court of inquiry determined that the ship was sunk by an external blast, as Hearst believed; a second inquiry in 1911, which raised the wreck from Havana harbor and studied it minutely, reached the same conclusion. A 1976 investigation overseen by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, relying on forensic knowledge collected from ships damaged in the Second World War, decided that the explosion likely occurred within the
Maine,
probably as a result of a fire in a coal bunker. In 1999, the National Geographic Society sponsored a computer-aided analysis of the wreck that supported the conclusion of the two initial inquiries. The sinking of the
Maine
is still a mystery but Rickover’s analysis is persuasive.
Copyright © 2009 Kenneth Whyte.
Published by arrangement with Knopf Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Whyte, Kenneth.
The uncrowned king / Kenneth Whyte.
p. cm.
Whyte, Kenneth.
The uncrowned king / Kenneth Whyte.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-582-43985-3
Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951. 2. Publishers and publishing—United States—Biography. 3. Newspaper publishing—United States—History—19th century. 4. Newspaper publishing—United States—History—20th century. I. Title.
Z473.H4W49 2009
070.5092—dc22
[B]
2008047442
070.5092—dc22
[B]
2008047442
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