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Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
Hot Time in the Old Town The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
Author: Edward P. Kohn
One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York City heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat coincided with a pitched presidential contest between William McKinley and upstart Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who arrived in New York at the height of the catastrophe. Showing how Bryan'...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465024285
ISBN-10: 0465024289
Publication Date: 7/12/2011
Pages: 304
Edition: First Trade Paper Ed
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This book is crammed with information about early turn of the last century New York. Add that to the shenanigans of the political machines in place then, as now, and you get a book that is readable but hard to keep up with at times.Teddy gets lost in the best parts of the story!

Still, a good book.


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