Heir to the Empire City : New York and the making of Theodore Roosevelt / Edward P. Kohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kohn, Edward P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.

Roosevelt, Theodore.

Politicians--New York (State)--Biography.

Politicians.

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

New York (N.Y.)--History--1865-1898.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical ?cowboy" president?a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P. Kohn argues that it was his hometown of New York that made him the progressive president we celebrate today. During his early political career, Roosevelt took on local Republican factions and Tammany Hall Democrats alike, proving his commitment to reform at all costs. He combated the city's rampant corruption, and helped to gu

Contents:

Table of Contents; Introduction: New York Knickerbocker; Prologue: June 18, 1910 Homecoming; 1. ""This little Rocky Island"" New York at Roosevelt's Birth; 2. ""It's Roosevelt from New York"" Roosevelt at Harvard; 3. ""The Dirtiest City in the Univers"" 1881: A Year in New York; 4. ""A Revolting State of Affairs"" Roosevelt's Work in the New York Assembly; 5. ""Hero Land"" Roosevelt's Trips West; 6. ""Into the Yawning Gulf"" Roosevelt's 1886 Bid for Mayor; 7. ""With Fidelity and Integrity"" Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner

8. ""There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"" Roosevelt as Police Commissioner9. ""The Ritz Riders"" Assistant Secretary of the Navy, War in Cuba, and Roosevelt's Path to Albany; 10. ""Governer of the Entire Party"" Roosevelt, Thomas Platt, and the New York Governorship; 11. ""The Direct Antithesis of McKinley"" The New York President; Epilogue: ""Fall Has Come""; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 14, 2014).

ISBN:

0-465-06975-4