What inspired the choice to focus on Roosevelt’s efforts to clean up New York’s vice districts?
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What inspired the choice to focus on Roosevelt’s efforts to clean up New York’s vice districts?
Did anyone else feel the depiction of 1890s New York was both vivid and gritty? How much of that was based on real sources?
How did Richard Zacks decide which events to include and which to leave out in Roosevelt’s vice cleanup campaign?