02430nam 2200505 a 450 991081416960332120230725035530.01-61147-061-7(CKB)2670000000370878(EBL)1207446(OCoLC)846496169(MiAaPQ)EBC1207446(Au-PeEL)EBL1207446(CaPaEBR)ebr10717395(CaONFJC)MIL494922(EXLCZ)99267000000037087820100610d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe price of honor the life and times of George Brinton McClellan, Jr. /M. Barbara MulrineMadison [N.J.] Farleigh Dickinson University Press20111 online resource (369 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61147-060-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Beginnings, 1865-895 -- The Halls of Congress, 1895-903 -- The initiation, 1903-904 -- Hizzoner, the mayor, 1905 -- Disputed territory, 1906 -- Bonds, borough presidents, blue laws, 1907 -- A rightful claim, 1908 -- Racing to the wire, 1909 -- Into oblivion, 1910-928 -- Elder statesman, 1929-940 --.This biography of George Brinton McClellan Jr., son of the Civil War general by the same name, a congressman, and mayor of New York (1904-1910), studies political courage and honor. The study emphasizes McClellan's six years as mayor, but also covers his youth, relationship with the general, his career as a reporter, years as a congressman, and his post-political career, which included his tenure as an economics history professor at Princeton, his brief Army career during World War I, his retirement years in Washington, DC, and burial in Arlington Cemetery.MayorsNew York (State)New YorkBiographyCollege teachersNew JerseyPrincetonBiographyNew York (N.Y.)Politics and government1898-1951MayorsCollege teachers974.7/104092BMulrine M. Barbara1946-1681066MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814169603321The price of honor4050267UNINA