pitch that President McKinley came to
             believe that if he did not fight the Spanish, he and his political party would suffer. This uproar was
             stimulated by two giants of the American press world. During the entire course of the Cuban rebellion,
             from 1895 to 1898, two rival newspapers foight their own war in the United States to gain supremacy in
             the American newspaper market. Both were published in New York City, and both had enormous
             national circulation and influence. These newspapers used the events in Cuba as a backdrop of their own
             journalistic rivalry. By reporting events in Cuba in a biased, inaccurate, and inflammatory way, these
             newspapers led the American public to demand that the quarrel with Spain be settled through war
             The moment was ripe for a military spirit to seize the American people. It had been more than
             thirty years, a full generation since the Civil War, which ended in 1865. As historian Gregory Mason
             ...