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Title:
New York exposed : the gilded age police scandal that launched the progressive era / Daniel Czitrom.
Author:
Czitrom, Daniel J., 1951- author.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Call Number:
HV8148.N5 C95 2016
Geographic Term:
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898.
ISBN:
9780199837007
Physical Description:
xv, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Subject Term:
Police corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.

Vice control -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.

Political corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.

Progressivism (United States politics) -- History -- 19th century.
Contents:
Parkhurst's challenge -- The buttons -- Democratic city, Republican nation -- Anarchy vs. corruption -- A rocky start -- Managing vice, extorting business -- "Reform never suffers from frankness" -- "A landslide, a tidal wave, a cyclone" -- Endgames -- Epilogue: the Lexow effect.
Personal Subject:
Parkhurst, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1842-1933.
Personal Author:
Czitrom, Daniel J., 1951- author.
Subject:
Police corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.

Vice control -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.

Political corruption -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.

Progressivism (United States politics) -- History -- 19th century.

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898.

Parkhurst, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1842-1933.
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