Dear Friends at Free Press: Harvey Wasserman is basically right about the Spanish-American War. But McKinley did call for an inquiry first, so it isn't correct to portray him as a warmonger. And the story of the "rape" of the Cuban Joan of Arc is tragi-comic in itself, because Hearst had laid the groundwork for it 15 years earlier at the Hasty Pudding Club at Harvard.

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