[Pdf free] New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era
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| #544715 in Books | 2016-05-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.40 x1.50 x9.40l,.0 | File Name: 0199837007 | 416 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| An Indispensable Addition to the New York Canon|By Alvin Harlow|The intersection of politics, policing and crime in Gilded Age New York City is a topic of perennial interest and Reverend Parkhurst’s anti-vice crusade and the spectacular revelations of Lexow Committee’s 1894 investigation probably did more than any other event to shape the popular recollection of th|||"New York Exposed takes us back to the rollicking, dangerous, fascinating New York of the 1890s, yet still contains many parallels to and lessons for our own time. Careful and rigorous history, it nonetheless reads like a gripping police procedural, filled w
On a Sunday morning in early 1892, Reverend Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst ascended to his pulpit at the Madison Square Presbyterian Church in New York and delivered one of the most explosive sermons in the city's history. Municipal life, he charged, was morally corrupt. Vice was rampant. And the city's police force and its Tammany Hall politicians were "a lying, perjured, rum-soaked, and libidinous lot." Denounced by city and police officials as a self-righteous "blatherskit...
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