Hot time in the old town the great heat wave of 1896 and the making of Theodore Roosevelt
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...
| Main Author: | Kohn, Edward P. 1968- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
c2010.
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