Island of Vice
Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-loving New York
New York : Doubleday, [2012]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: viii, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
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.
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.
ISBN:
9780385519724
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY North Am. US NY Zac | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |
HISTORY North Am. US NY Zac | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.