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

by Richard Zacks

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385519729
• ISBN13: 9780385519724
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 431 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"