{"product_id":"island-of-vice-richard-zacks-9780767926195","title":"Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe city rebelled big time; cartoonists lampooned him on the front page; his own political party abandoned him but Roosevelt never backed down. \u003ci\u003eIsland of Vice\u003c\/i\u003e delivers a rollicking narrative history of Roosevelt's embattled tenure, pitting the seedy against the saintly, and the city against its would-be savior.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Zacks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0767926196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780767926195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 1.10d","brand":"Richard Zacks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45477235949823,"sku":"9780767926195","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a00dbb57-f2e9-425c-8bd5-f8056c85fdab.jpg?v=1715919426","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/island-of-vice-richard-zacks-9780767926195","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}