Island of Vice
Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-loving New York
New York : Doubleday, [2012]
Format: Ebook
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Edition: First edition.
Description: 1 online resource (viii, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
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:
9780385534024
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.