TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kohn,Edward P.
TI  - Heir to the Empire City: New York and the making of Theodore Roosevelt 
SN  - 9780465024292 (hardback)
AV  - E757 .K64 2014
U1  - 973.91/1092B 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Roosevelt, Theodore,
KW  - Politicians
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - Biography
KW  - Presidents
KW  - United States
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
KW  - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - History
KW  - 1865-1898
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index; Introduction : New York Knickerbocker -- Prologue: June 18, 1910, Homecoming -- "This Little Rocky Island" : New York at Roosevelt's Birth -- "It's Roosevelt from New York" : Roosevelt At Harvard -- "The Dirtiest City in the Universe" 1881 : A Year in New York -- "A Revolting State of Affairs" Roosevelt's Work in the New York Assembly -- "Hero Land" : Roosevelt's Trips West -- "Into the Yawning Gulf" : Roosevelt's 1886 Bid for Mayor -- "With Fidelity and Integrity" -- Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner -- "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" : Roosevelt as Police Commissioner -- "The Ritz Riders" : Assistant Secretary of the Navy, War in Cuba, and Roosevelt's Path to Albany -- "Governor of the Entire Party" Roosevelt, Thomas Platt, and the New York Governorship -- "The Direct Antithesis of McKinley" : The New York President
N2  - "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 guide New York through the perils of rabid urbanization and the challenges of accommodating an influx of immigrants-experiences that would serve him well as president of the United States. A riveting account of a man and a city on the brink of greatness, Heir to the Empire City reveals that Roosevelt's true education took place not in the West but on the mean streets of nineteenth-century New York. "--
ER  -