New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199837007
ISBN13:9780199837007
Release Date:May 2016
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:416 Pages
Weight:1.68 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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