Following his study of Chicago, the British reformer W. T. Stead turned to New York in the 1890s. He describes the police system, payoffs from saloons, gambling dens and brothels, the hold of Tammany Hall on the city, and the testimony of crooks and officers, before weighing the prospects of reform for the new consolidated metropolis.
A landmark of investigative journalism by the editor who later died on the Titanic. Download the free EPUB.