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Richard Zacks
431 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780385519724
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication date: Not specified
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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-edu...
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![Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-loving New York by Richard Zacks](https://assets.thestorygraph.com/assets/placeholder-cover-a3ae92250eb3301e32dc3eabf8d50576c2f047dda89f6ee7cfa9a859cb1fd746.jpg)
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Richard Zacks
431 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780385519724
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication date: Not specified
Description
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-edu...