Island of Vice
Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York
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ISBN-13:
9780767926195
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.09.2012
Seiten:
464
Autor:
Richard Zacks
Gewicht:
436 g
Format:
212x131x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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