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Island of vice : Theodore Roosevelt's doomed quest to clean up sin-loving New York

text Island of vice : Theodore Roosevelt's doomed quest to clean up sin-loving New York

Zacks, Richard.

Summary

Recounts the effort by newly appointed police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt to shut down late nineteenth-century New York City's brothels, gambling houses, and after-hours saloons.

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Description
viii, 431 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher
Doubleday 2012
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Woodmere (Main Branch) 363.23 ZAC in Adult Non-fiction Reshelving

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