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Hot time in the old town : the great heat wave of 1896 and the making of Theodore Roosevelt / Edward P. Kohn.
- Title
- Hot time in the old town : the great heat wave of 1896 and the making of Theodore Roosevelt / Edward P. Kohn.
- Author
- Kohn, Edward P. (Edward Parliament), 1968-
- Publication
- New York : Basic Books, ©2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | F128.47 .K76 2010 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 288 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- The 1896 New York heat wave that killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days coincided with a pitched presidential contest between William McKinley and the upstart Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who arrived in New York City at the height of the catastrophe. As historian Edward P. Kohn shows, Bryan's hopes for the presidency began to flag amidst the abhorrent heat just as a bright young police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt was scrambling to mitigate the dangerously high temperatures.
- Subject
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
- Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925
- 1800-1899
- Heat waves (Meteorology) > New York > History > 19th century
- Heat waves (Meteorology) > History > New York > 19th century
- Mortality > New York > History > 19th century
- Mortality > history
- Heat Stroke > history
- Gastrointestinal Diseases > history
- Cholera > history
- Vagues de chaleur > New York > Histoire > 19e siècle
- Vagues de chaleur > Histoire > New York > 19e siècle
- Mortalité > New York > Histoire > 19e siècle
- Ecology
- Heat waves (Meteorology)
- Mortality
- Social conditions
- New York (N.Y.) > History > 1865-1898
- New York (N.Y.) > Environmental conditions
- New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions > 19th century
- New York (N.Y.) > Biography
- New York (N.Y.) > Histoire > 1865-1898
- New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue: "The heated term" -- Introduction: "Fighting for air" -- "Cholera infantium" -- "Slaughter Alley" -- "Enemy's country" -- "Inferno of brick and stone" -- "Bryan spoke and his auditors fled" -- "Some strange and pathetic scenes" -- Conclusion: "A phenomenon" -- Epilogue: "Hot time in the old town" -- Postscript -- Appendix A: Death certificates filed, August 4-17, 1895 and 1896 -- Appendix B: Who died : Manhattan, Tuesday, August 11.
- ISBN
- 9780465013364
- 0465013368
- LCCN
- 2010006274
- 99940259156
- OCLC
- 435418536
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library