The price of honor : the life and times of George Brinton McClellan, Jr. / M. Barbara Mulrine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mulrine, M. Barbara, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Mayors.

College teachers--New Jersey--Princeton--Biography.

College teachers.

New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1898-1951.

New York (N.Y.).

United States. Congress. House--Biography.

United States.

McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1865-1940.

McClellan, George B.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011.

Summary:

This biography of George Brinton McClellan Jr., son of the Civil War general by the same name, a congressman, and mayor of New York (1904-1910), studies political courage and honor. The study emphasizes McClellan's six years as mayor, but also covers his youth, relationship with the general, his career as a reporter, 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, DC, and burial in Arlington Cemetery.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-68393-881-X

1-61147-061-7

OCLC:

846496169