Scenes from the Life of a City

Released on by Eric Homberger
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  • Scenes from the Life of a City Book Detail

  • Author : Eric Homberger
  • Release Date : 1996-09-01
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  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 368
  • ISBN 13 : 9780300068825
  • File Size : 18,18 MB
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Scenes from the Life of a City by Eric Homberger PDF Summary

Book Description: Homberger focuses on four main characters who played important roles in various reform efforts of the period: Ann Lohman, known as "Madame Restell, the world-renowned medical expert," whose services as an abortionist were partly responsible for the creation of a harshly repressive public policy toward abortion that persisted for more than a century; "Slippery Dick" Connolly, comptroller of New York City, who escaped to Europe with millions of the city's dollars and betrayed his confederates in the Tweed Ring; Dr. Stephen Smith, a young surgeon at Bellevue Hospital, who was able to show that dozens of cases of typhus had originated in a single tenement on East 22nd Street; and Frederick Law Olmsted, the architect-in-chief of Central Park, who brought into reality a concept promoted by the aristocracy for the benefit of rich and poor alike.

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