Contents

Cover

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One CENSORSHIP
The National Board of Review
State and Municipal Censorship
Will Hays
Chapter Two MATTERS OF SEX
The Vamp
Divorce

The Lonely Trail

Why Change Your Wife?

Are Parents People?

Companionate Marriage
Birth Control

Where Are My Children?

Social Diseases

Ghosts

Damaged Goods

Fit to Win

Whatsoever a Man Soweth

The Scarlet Trail

Open Your Eyes

End of the Road

The White Slave Films

Traffic in Souls

The Inside of the White Slave Traffic

The House of Bondage

Virtue Triumphant?

The Red Kimono

Chapter Three DRUGS

Human Wreckage

The Greatest Menace

The Pace That Kills

Chapter Four PROHIBITION

Those Who Dance

Twelve Miles Out

Chapter Five CRIME
Scandal and Notoriety

Public Opinion

Evelyn Nesbit

Beulah Binford

The De Saulles Case

The Clara Hamon Case

The Obenchain Case

The Police
The Great Detectives

Into the Net

Juvenile Delinquency

Saved by the Judge

Broken Laws

The Road to Ruin

The Godless Girl

Gangsters

Regeneration

The Penalty

The Racket

Chapter Six POLITICAL CORRUPTION

The Life of Big Tim Sullivan

Governor Sulzer’s Battle with Tammany Hall
Chapter Seven WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

Eighty Million Women Want

Your Girl and Mine

Every Woman’s Problem

Chapter Eight PRISONS
Prison Labor

The Honor System

Capital Punishment
Chapter Nine POVERTY
Tuberculosis
Loan Sharking
“One Law for the Rich …”

The Escape

The Bridge of Sighs

Kindling

The Cup of Life

The Food Gamblers

The Blot

The Crowd

Chapter Ten THE FOREIGNERS
The Italians

The Italian

The Chinese

Broken Blossoms

Shadows

The Japanese
The Russians

Sold for Marriage

The Cossack Whip

The Fall of the Romanoffs

The Russian Revolutions

Between Two Flags

Land of Mystery

The Jews

The Leo Frank Case

Henry Ford

Sidney Goldin

Humoresque

Hungry Hearts

Salome of the Tenements

Edward Sloman

His People

We Americans

The Jazz Singer

The Younger Generation

Abie’s Irish Rose

Chapter Eleven INDUSTRY
Child Labor

Children Who Labor

The Cry of the Children

Socialism and Populism

Upton Sinclair

A Corner in Wheat

The Red Scare

Bolshevism on Trial

Dangerous Hours

The New Moon

The Burning Question

Land of Opportunity

Starvation

The Eternal City

The Volga Boatman

Capital versus Labor

An American in the Making

The Jungle

The Triangle Fire

The Ludlow Massacre

Who Pays?

Fires of Youth

The Contrast

The F.F.C.

Men of Steel

The Passaic Textile Strike

Epilogue

Notes
Selected Bibliography
About the Author