"Hot TIme in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Teddy Roosevelt"

Before he led the Rough Riders against Spanish forces in Cuba, Teddy Roosevelt took on the big ice trusts in New York City. Historian Edward P. Kohn talks about how the eventual 26th President's rise in politics started when he brought Lower East Side tenement dwellers some cool relief during a particularly hot summer.