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Daniel Czitrom: New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era [2016] hardback ACTIV The teenage wasteland he fledIn an incendiary 1892 sermon given at the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Charles Parkhurst declared New York's municipal life to be deplorable and corrupt, controlled by "polluted harpies feeding day and night on its quivering vitals." While city officials denounced him as a "blatherskite" and a "cowardly defamer," Parkhurst set about gathering a slew of evidence to present in a later series of sermons that captivated city residents and