Off topic from the central topic but this sounds like a good book, I barely caught Rowe on the radio, he was talking about another candidate who got giant crowds, 75,000 way back when but still lost. Maybe that candidate was McKinley's opponent, William Jennings Bryant, sounds like a good book. I haven't found that much on it yet. I'm certainly not plugging for Karl Rove.
No one ever talks about Presidents like McKinley or Garfield, really, we don't talk about most of them but a few.