Table of Contents
Introduction: New York Knickerbocker ix
Prologue June 18, 1910 Homecoming 1
1 "This Little Rocky Island": New York at Roosevelt's Birth 9
2 "It's Roosevelt from New York": Roosevelt at Harvard 25
3 "The Dirtiest City in the Universe": 1881: A Year in New York 41
4 "A Revolting State of Affairs": Roosevelt's Work in the New York Assembly 63
5 "Hero Land": Roosevelt's Trips West 85
6 "Into the Yawning Gulf": Roosevelt's 1886 Bid for Mayor 105
7 "With Fidelity and Integrity": Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner 119
8 "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight": Roosevelt as Police Commissioner 147
9 "The Ritz Riders": Assistant Secretary of the Navy, War in Cuba, and Roosevelt's Path to Albany 163
10 "Governor of the Entire Party": Roosevelt, Thomas Piatt, and the New York Governorship 185
11 "The Direct Antithesis of McKinley": The New York President 201
Epilogue "Fall Has Come "219
Acknowledgments 227
Bibliography 229
Index 239