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Island of Vice - 9780767926195

Un libro in lingua di Richard Zacks edito da Anchor Books, 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 cops, banned barroom drinking on Sundays and tried to convince 2 million New Yorkers to enjoy wholesome family fun.

The city rebelled big time; cartoonists lampooned him on the front page; his own political party abandoned him but Roosevelt never backed down. Island of Vice delivers a rollicking narrative history of Roosevelt’s embattled tenure, pitting the seedy against the saintly, and the city against its would-be savior.

Informazioni bibliografiche

  • Titolo del Libro in lingua: Island of Vice
  • Sottotitolo: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-loving New York
  • Lingua: English
  • AutoreRichard Zacks
  • Editore: Anchor Books
  • Collana: Anchor Books (Paperback)
  • Data di Pubblicazione: 04 Settembre '12
  • Genere: HISTORY
  • Pagine: 431
  • EAN-13: 9780767926195