Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York
- ISBN-10
- 0767926196
- ISBN-13
- 9780767926195
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 431
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Author
- Richard Zacks
Description
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.
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- 2012
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