Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Reform Sin-loving New York by Richard Zacks

Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Reform Sin-loving New York

Richard Zacks

464 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
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In the 1890s, young cocksure Theodore Roosevelt, years before the White House, was appointed police commissioner of corrupt, pleasure-loving New York, then teeming with 40,000 prostitutes, illegal casinos and all-night dance halls. The Harvard-edu...

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