Edward P Kohn: 2 books
Hot Time in the Old Town
The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
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...
Heir to the Empire City
New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
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...