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

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

Richard Zacks

465 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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A ROLLICKING NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S EMBATTLED TENURE AS POLICE COMMISSIONER OF CORRUPT, PLEASURE-LOVING NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1880s, AND HIS DOOMED MISSION TO WIPE OUT VICEIn the 1890s, New York City was America’s financial, manu...

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