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Author Zacks, Richard.

Title Island of vice [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] Theodore Roosevelt's doomed quest to clean up sin-loving New York / Richard Zacks.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, [2012]
©2012
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Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1531974~S1
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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.
Subject Vice control -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
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.
Genre Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Zacks, Richard. Island of vice. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, c2012 9780385519724 (DLC) 2011028586 (OCoLC)742234387
ISBN 9780385534024 (electronic bk.)
0385534027 (electronic bk.)
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