Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Satan's Invisible World Displayed: Or Despairing Democracy, a Study of Greater New York
It will, world the gist and essence of the evide Committee appointed by the Senate of the inquire into the Police Department of the presided over by Senator Lexow, held 1894, and ultimately published the Report stout octavo volumes of 1100 pages each. All their were public, and the New York papers published ample day to day. Outside New York nothing but brief occasional letters informed the world of what was the final Report was never published in the British Yet the lesson of the state of things revealed by mittee 'was one which every great city would do heart. What New York was, London, Glasgow, or - nay, will certainly - become, if the citizens lose good government of their city.
When I was in New York in September, I tried in purchase a copy of the Lexow Report. As for exhuming of the daily papers, one might as well try to resurrect Fortunately, just as I was stepping on board the bulky volumes were handed over to me as a loan. The last moment succeeded in borrowing the office copy of the Report from the Society for the Prevention of Crlme. It was the only available set in the whole city. I deemed it we] to master the voluminous evidence in order to construct a readable and authentic narrative which would make this great object-lesson accessible to the world.
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