Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York
Island of Vice • Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • ISBN 9780767926195
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York
Island of Vice • Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • ISBN-13 9780767926195
ISBN-10 1765435935 • 2012
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In the 1890s, young cocksure Theodore Roosevelt, years before the White House, was appointed police commissioner of corrupt, pleasure-loving New York, then teeming with 40,000 prostitutes, illegal casinos and all-night dance halls. The Harvard-educated Roosevelt, with a reformer’s zeal, tried to wipe out the city’s vice and corruption. He went head-to-head with Tammany Hall, took midnight rambles looking for derelict
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