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.

"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

• 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

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.

"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

• 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