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Of the Mann Act, long relegated to the status of obscene perforated Frank Sinatra and literary digressions Lolita Humbert Humbert deplores law as "lends itself to a terrible pun for" real news recently for the first time in a century. In March, when Eliot Spitzer resigned as Governor of New York, experts speculate that it could face criminal charges based on the law, passed in 1910, which banned the interstate transport of any woman or girl for "the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any immoral purpose." Appointed by Republican Rep. James R. Mann and officially known as the White Slave Traffic Act, the law had a tortured (and torturing) the story long before it loomed as a threat to Spitzer or entered mid-century culture pop lexicon.

Much has been said about Spitzer's hypocrisy on the matter: the self-proclaimed reformer who was governor of New York State travel free of corruption, which has fervently prosecuted prostitution rings, which indicated that these organizations are often linked with money laundering, drugs, and trafficking. However, Spitzer, while guilty of misjudgment and arrogance impressive, is just not true that the people and events leading up to this outdated law For almost a century.

The furor surrounding the Mann Act has been forgotten, but during the first decade of the 20th century, the "social evil", as called prostitution, inspired by the daily press coverage. In 1907, the federal government, concerned about the proliferation of red light districts across the country, sent a team of agents to investigate conditions in several major cities. In Chicago, an ambitious young attorney named Clifford Roe States sought a face to humanize prostitution, and one night and literally fell from heaven.

A teenage girl, history, released a note from the window of a brothel reading, "I am a white slave", and found its way to the office of Roe. Nobody, least of Roe, paid much attention to discrepancies in the story of the victim, including the rumor that she was a prostitute by choice, that he had a momentary altercation with her pimp, and had returned to work as soon as the case closed.

Roe used this case to argue for stricter laws against prostitution rings, eventually securing passage seminal legislation in twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia. His colleagues, including Congressman Mann and Edwin Sims, City Attorney, U.S. District fed with hysteria and hyperbole absolute lie, telling lurid tales of professional rapists and a head pimp known internationally as "Big Chief."

In December 1909, when federal agents presented their findings on several Red light districts, the U.S. was in a panic trafficking. Churches, women's groups and reform organizations bombarded their representatives with national reasons for taking action. President William Howard Taft responded to the petition, declaring Bill Mann, "constitutional" and the allocation of $ 50,000 for the hiring of special inspectors. A new branch within the U.S. Department of Justice asked the Office of Research, the "Federal" to be added later to be accused of persecuting the Mann Act violations. The Bureau, at this point, only twenty workers and three officers, but the law Mann began his transformation from a small office in question, with several misdemeanor cases to government more recognizable and powerful legal arm.

But federal authorities spent less time in search of the Apocrypha "Great Leader" of persecuting citizens of controversy, and the ambiguity of the phrase "any immoral purpose" took a detour. Jack Johnson, first boxing black world heavyweight champion, was arrested in 1912 and served one year in prison for the testimony of his jilted lover, a white prostitute. Ex-wife of Frank Lloyd Wright alert FBI agents when the architect crossed state lines with his girlfriend. In 1944, J. Edgar Hoover, concerned about the radical politics of Charlie Chaplin, began monitoring the actor's sex life and what was reserved to charge a Mann Act. Buyers remorse had set in long ago was a progressive reformer called the White Slave Traffic, "a kind of pornography to satisfy the American sense of news", but the Mann Act remains on the books for this day reinforced by a national political ethos that scares elected representatives to cast votes that may be perceived as an attack on "values.

The architects of this century-old piece of legislation survived with her career and reputation intact. Eliot Spitzer, a family man whose reformist agenda have performed While the Progressive Era in America, is not so lucky.

Sin in the Second City: Gentlemen, Ministers, Playboys, and the battle for the soul of America

By Karen Abbott

Published by Random House

June 2008, $ 15.00US / $ 17.00CAN; 978-0-8129-7599-4

About the Author:

Karen Abbott is the author of the New York Times bestseller Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul. Abbott is a native of Philadelphia, where she worked as a journalist for several years. Her next book is a portrait of Gypsy Rose Lee and Depression-era New York City. Visit her online at www.sininthesecondcity.com.

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