The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World

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The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World

by Robert O. Harland

EN·~4 hours·12 chapters

Chapters

12 total
1

THE VICE BONDAGE OF A GREAT CITY

2:38
2

Preface.

8:45
3

CHAPTER I.

40:34
4

CHAPTER II.

20:10
5

CHAPTER III.

32:34
6

CHAPTER IV.

16:36
7

CHAPTER V.

10:36
8

CHAPTER VI.

49:49
9

CHAPTER VII.

16:45
10

CHAPTER VIII.

23:23

Description

In this unflinching expose, the author pulls back the curtain on a sprawling network of vice, graft, and political corruption that has come to dominate one of America's greatest metropolises. Drawing on official investigations, police testimonies, and courtroom records, the narrative reveals how vice lords have exploited everything from gambling halls to the darkest corners of human trafficking, all while enjoying protection from a compromised police force. The book does not shy away from the human cost, giving voice to victims whose lives have been shattered by the relentless march of commercialized sin.

By laying out the mechanics of the “Vice Trust” and its hidden ties to city officials, the author urges readers to recognize the systemic nature of the problem rather than dismissing it as isolated crime. The work serves both as a historical document of early twentieth‑century urban decay and as a call to action for citizens who want to protect their children from the corrosive influence of unchecked greed.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~4 hours (249K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)

Release date

2013-09-03

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

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Robert O. Harland

Best known for a vivid 1912 exposé of corruption and vice in Chicago, this elusive writer left behind a book that reads like muckraking journalism with a reformer's urgency. Very little about the person survives, which only adds to the book's strange, time-capsule pull.

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