Mark Stein is an author, screenwriter, and playwright. He has published several books, including How the States Got Their Shapes, a New York Times best seller and the basis for the eponymous History Channel series, and American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Inheritance2. A “Virtue-ly” New Nation3. “Free at Last” with Liberty and Must-Nots for All Kinds of Stuff4. Careers in Vice for Crusaders and Purveyors5. Vices That Roared between World Wars6. Moola and Ooh-la-la in Burlesque and Film7. A New Power and New Views of Vice8. Think Twice about ViceNotesBibliographyIndex

"In Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present author Mark Stein utilizes a humor-based approach to tracing the lengthy history of vice control in the United States."-Steven Block, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books “Vice Capades exposes our racist and sexist history but reads like a Jon Stewart segment.”-Marianne Noble, author of The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature“Mark Stein once again shines brilliant light on who we really are as a nation and people.”-Mark Olshaker, coauthor of Mindhunter and Law and Disorder “This is classic Mark Stein: funny and wise and full of verve. An erudite and fun read.”-Bob Davis, coauthor of Prosperity

Mark Stein is an author, screenwriter, and playwright. He has published several books, including How the States Got Their Shapes, a New York Times best seller and the basis for the eponymous History Channel series, and American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Inheritance2. A “Virtue-ly” New Nation3. “Free at Last” with Liberty and Must-Nots for All Kinds of Stuff4. Careers in Vice for Crusaders and Purveyors5. Vices That Roared between World Wars6. Moola and Ooh-la-la in Burlesque and Film7. A New Power and New Views of Vice8. Think Twice about ViceNotesBibliographyIndex

"In Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present author Mark Stein utilizes a humor-based approach to tracing the lengthy history of vice control in the United States."-Steven Block, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books “Vice Capades exposes our racist and sexist history but reads like a Jon Stewart segment.”-Marianne Noble, author of The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature“Mark Stein once again shines brilliant light on who we really are as a nation and people.”-Mark Olshaker, coauthor of Mindhunter and Law and Disorder “This is classic Mark Stein: funny and wise and full of verve. An erudite and fun read.”-Bob Davis, coauthor of Prosperity

Mark Stein is an author, screenwriter, and playwright. He has published several books, including How the States Got Their Shapes, a New York Times best seller and the basis for the eponymous History Channel series, and American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Inheritance2. A “Virtue-ly” New Nation3. “Free at Last” with Liberty and Must-Nots for All Kinds of Stuff4. Careers in Vice for Crusaders and Purveyors5. Vices That Roared between World Wars6. Moola and Ooh-la-la in Burlesque and Film7. A New Power and New Views of Vice8. Think Twice about ViceNotesBibliographyIndex

"In Vice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present author Mark Stein utilizes a humor-based approach to tracing the lengthy history of vice control in the United States."-Steven Block, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books “Vice Capades exposes our racist and sexist history but reads like a Jon Stewart segment.”-Marianne Noble, author of The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature“Mark Stein once again shines brilliant light on who we really are as a nation and people.”-Mark Olshaker, coauthor of Mindhunter and Law and Disorder “This is classic Mark Stein: funny and wise and full of verve. An erudite and fun read.”-Bob Davis, coauthor of Prosperity