Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
New York: Basic Books, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. 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. A bright young police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt was scrambling.....