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Island of vice: Theodore Roosevelt's doomed quest to clean up sin-loving New York

By Richard , Roosevelt , Theodore;Zacks

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2012
ISBN
9780385534024, 0385534027
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
5 MB (4748788 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
(viii, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1858-1919;Vice control -- New York (State) -- N19th Century;Law enforcement--New York (N.Y.)--HisTheodore

Description

Recounts the effort by newly appointed police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt to shut down late nineteenth-century New York City's brothels, gambling houses, and after-hours saloons.

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