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New York exposed : the gilded age police scandal that launched the progressive era
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- Creator
- Daniel Czitrom
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016
- Physical Details
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- xv, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0199837015, 9780199382132, 0190864346, 9780199837007, 9780199837014, 0199837007, 0199382131
- OCLC
- ocn922970498, ocn953456221
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Parkhurst's challenge -- The buttons -- Democratic city, Republican nation -- Anarchy vs. corruption -- A rocky start -- Managing vice, extorting business -- "Reform never suffers from frankness" -- "A landslide, a tidal wave, a cyclone" -- Endgames -- Epilogue: the Lexow effect
Subjects
- Parkhurst, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1842-1933.
- Police corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
- Vice control -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
- Political corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
- Progressivism (United States politics) -- History -- 19th century.
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898.