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

Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-loving New York
ISBN-10
0385519729
ISBN-13
9780385519724
Category
History
Pages
431
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Doubleday Books
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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