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Island of vice : Theodore Roosevelt's doomed quest to clean up sin-loving New York
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- Summary
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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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- Creator
- Richard Zacks
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Doubleday, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- viii, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780385519724, 0385519729
- OCLC
- ocn742234387
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
- Vice control -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
- Police administration -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Moral conditions -- History -- 19th century.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.