For Business and Pleasure : Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933
Mara L. Keire’s history of red-light districts in the United States offers readers a fascinating survey of the business of pleasure from the 1890s through the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Anti-vice reformers in the late nineteenth century accepted that complete eradication of disreputable pleasure...
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