[Read free] Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
✿ Edward P. Kohn ✿
| #1908905 in Books | 2011-07-12 | 2011-07-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.88 x5.50l,.70 | File Name: 0465024289 | 304 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Hot Time in the Old Town|By Customer|I purchased the Kindle edition. I learned about a disaster of which I had no idea. Indeed, there were numerous descriptions of gruesome deaths resulting from the heat wave of 1996 which affected the East and Midwest, although the book concentrates on NYC. Actually, there were more such descriptions than were needed to make the point...I|From Publishers Weekly|For 10 hellishly hot days in August 1896, the poorly ventilated tenement blocks of immigrant New York were transformed into massive ovens: horses dropped dead in the streets and nearly 1,300 people perished. That same week, William Jennin
One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat 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 polic... [PDF.fj66] Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt Rating: 3.99 (532 Votes)
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