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New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
Basic Books
December 2013
On Sale: December 10, 2013
Featuring: Theodore Roosevelt
272 pages
ISBN: 0465024297
EAN: 9780465024292
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
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.
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