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Zacks, Richard.
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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Vice control -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Police administration -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Moral conditions -- History -- 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Zacks, Richard.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Vice control -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Police administration -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Moral conditions -- History -- 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Island of vice : Theodore Roosevelt's doomed quest to clean up sin-loving
New
York
/ Richard Zacks.
by
Zacks, Richard.
Doubleday, c2012.
Call #:
974.71 Z16i
Subjects
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Vice control
--
New
York
(State)
--
New
York
--
History
--
19th
century
.
Police administration
--
New
York
(State)
--
New
York
--
History
--
19th
century
.
New
York
(
N
.Y.)
--
Moral
conditions
--
History
--
19th
century
.
New
York
(
N
.Y.)
--
Social life and customs
--
19th
century
.
ISBN:
9780385519724
0385519729
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
viii, 431 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-410) and index.
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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Captain William Spry Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
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