Island of vice

author: Zacks, Richard
Looks at turn-of-the-century New York with its prostitutes, casinos, all night bars, and how police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt attempted to clean up the city.
year: 2012
call number/section: 363.2
subjects: roosevelt, theodore, 1858-1919, vice control, history, police, new york (n.y.), police administration, new york (n.y.), history, social life and customs, moral conditions
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