The Price of Honor: The Life and Times of George Brinton McClellan Jr.

by M. Barbara Mulrine

Overview

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. McClellan was a Tammany Hall Democrat, who challenged the boss of Tammany Hall, Charles Francis Murphy, and put principle above party. For his disloyalty, he paid the price of political oblivion. This important figure in the modernization of the city is hardly remembered because of the power of his enemies. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611470611
Publisher:	University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date:	05/31/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

M. Barbara Mulrine is a secondary school librarian at Manatee School for the Arts in Palmetto, Florida.

Table of Contents

1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 1. Beginnings, 1865-1895
Chapter 3 2. The Halls of Congress
Chapter 4 3. The Initiation, 1903-1904
Chapter 5 4. Hizzoner, the Mayer, 1905
Chapter 6 5. Disputed Territory, 1906
Chapter 7 6. Bonds, Borough Presidents, Blue Laws, 1907
Chapter 8 7. A Rightful Claim, 1908
Chapter 9 8. Racing to the Wire, 1909
Chapter 10 9. Into Oblivion, 1910-1928
Chapter 11 10. Elder Statesman, 1929-1940
12 Notes
13 Bibliography
14 Index