The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Table of Contents - January 2012 - Volume 11, Issue 01  

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Book Reviews

Do Heat Waves Make Politicians?

Edward P Kohn. Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Basic Books, 2010. xv + 288 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-01336-4.

Ann Norton Greenea1 c1

a1 University of Pennsylvania

Correspondence:

c1 angreene@sas.upenn.edu

Ann Norton Greene is in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written on veterinary medicine and urban wildlife, with publications including Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America (2008). She is beginning a project on science, energy, and technology in Progressive Era agriculture.