[PDF.39ws] Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York

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

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 | #391123 in Books |  Anchor |  2012-09-04 |  2012-09-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.90 x5.10l,.95 | File type: PDF | 464 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government.|By Christopher Kelly|Richard Zacks, author of The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 recently published Island of Vice. This lively history tells the story of Teddy's Roosevelt's "doomed quest to clean up sin-loving New York" in the early 1890's.

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 cops, banned barroom drinking on Sunday...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York   |  Richard Zacks. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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