Ida McKinley Marsha Kight Drawing on this newly uncovered

Drawing on this newly uncovered correspondence

and the US neutralized

' - Libor Mikeska novelist musician and scholar Heidelberg Germany

The eldest son of migrant Sephardic Jews

Ida McKinley Marsha Kight Drawing on this newly uncoveredPublished in cooperation with The National First Ladies Library This is the first full length biography of Ida Saxton McKinley (1847 1907), the wife of William McKinley, president of the United States from 1897 to his assassination in 1901. Long demeaned by history because she suffered from epilepsy which the society of her era mistakenly believed to border on mental illness Ida McKinley was an exceptional woman who exerted a strong influence on her