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Island of vice : Theodore Roosevelt's doomed quest to clean up sin-loving New York
Title:
Island of vice : Theodore Roosevelt's doomed quest to clean up sin-loving New York
Author:
Zacks, Richard.
Personal Author:
Zacks, Richard.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, [2012]

©2012
Physical Description:
viii, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:
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.
Language:
English
Personal Subject:
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Subject Term:
Vice control -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.

Police administration -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.

Law enforcement -- New York (N.Y.) -- History.

Police -- New York (N.Y.) -- History.
Geographic Term:
New York (N.Y.) -- Moral conditions -- History -- 19th century.

New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

New York (N.Y.) -- Moral conditions -- History.

New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9780385519724
Format :
Book

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