Island Of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest To Clean Up Sin-loving New York
by Richard Zacks /
2012 / English / EPUB
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An account of the effort by newly appointed police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt to shut down late 19th-century New York City's brothels, gambling houses and after-hours saloons traces the future 26th President's failed confrontations with Tammany Hall, muckrakers and irate everyday citizens.
