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 with Joe Ochman (Narrator)

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fiction biography history informative slow-paced
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In Island of Vice, Richard Zacks paints a vivid portrait of the lewd underbelly of 1890s New York, and of Theodore Roosevelt, the puritanical, cocksure police commissioner resolved to clean it up. Writing with great wit and zest, Zacks explores h...

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