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Great disasters, reforms and ramificationsKohn, Edward P. (Edward Parliament)
Summary: The 1896 New York heat wave that killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 KOHWolraich, Michael
Summary: "Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names--businessmen, socialites, gangsters. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by Governor Franklin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 WOLOller, John
Summary: "From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues' Gallery is a colorful and captivating history of crime and punishment in the bustling streets of Old New York"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.2 OLLDe Hahn, Tracee.
Summary: Text and photos describe the Blizzard of '88, which hit the eastern U.S. seaboard in March of 1888 and killed four hundred people; explains how the storm affected people of various classes and employments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 DEHKohn, Edward P. (Edward Parliament)
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013