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The price of honor : the life and times of George Brinton McClellan Jr. / M. Barbara Mulrine.
Van Pelt Library E748.M145 M85 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mulrine, M. Barbara, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1865-1940.
- McClellan, George B.
- United States. Congress. House--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Congress. House.
- College teachers.
- New Jersey--Princeton.
- Mayors--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Mayors.
- New York (State)--New York.
- New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1898-1951.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Politics and government.
- College teachers--New Jersey--Princeton--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Madison, N.J.] : Farleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield, [2011]
- Summary:
- This biography of George Brinton McClellan Jr. son of the Civil War general, a congressman, and mayor of New York (1904 -- 1910)Studies political courage and honor. McClellan was a Tammany Hall Democrat who challenged the boss of Tammany Hall, Charles Francis Murphy, and put principle above party. For his disloyalty, he paid the price of political oblivion. Today, this important figure in the modernization of the city is hardly remembered because of the power of his enemies. This study emphasizes McClellan's six years as mayor, but also covers his youth, relationship with his father, his career as a reporter, his years as a congressman, and his post political career, which included his tenure as an economics history professor at Princeton, his brief army career during World War I, his retirement years in Washington, D.C., and his burial in Arlington Cemetery. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Beginnings, 1865-895
- The halls of Congress, 1895-903
- The initiation, 1903-904
- Hizzoner, the mayor, 1905
- Disputed territory, 1906
- Bonds, borough presidents, blue laws, 1907
- A rightful claim, 1908
- Racing to the wire, 1909
- Into oblivion, 1910-928
- Elder statesman, 1929-940.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781611470604
- 1611470609
- 9780838642320
- 0838642322
- OCLC:
- 642204807
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