Daniel Czitrom

New York Exposed

The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era

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Produktbeschreibung

A gripping narrative history of the crusade against vice and police corruption in fin de siecle New York and how it defined and inspired an era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780199837007
• ISBN-10: 0199837007
• Artikelnr.: 47866195

Autorenporträt

Daniel Czitrom is Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, and the author of Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (North Carolina, 1982)

Inhaltsangabe

1) Parkhurst's Challenge: "A Lying, Perjured, Rum Soaked, and Libidinous Lot"
2) The Buttons
3) The City vs. The Nation
4) The Road to Lexow, 1893-94
5) From Vote Fraud to Managing Vice: March-June 1894
6) Brutality and Oppression: September-November 1894
7) Higher Up: December 1894
8) Conclusion
Epilogue