War on crime
bandits, G-men, and the politics of mass culture
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Author
Publication
1998 - Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
62,500 words, Guess
Page Count
250 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL676087M
- ISBN-100813524865
- OCLC Control Number44958097
- OCLC Control Number37155755
- OCLC Control Numberwaroncrimebandit00pott
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- Library of Congress Control Number97022311
- LibraryThing923151
- Goodreads1535278
Classifications
- DDC364.973
- LCCHV8144.F43 P67 1998
Description
War on Crime revises the history of the New Deal transformation and suggests a new model for political historyone which recognizes that cultural phenomena and the political realm produce, between them, an idea of "the state." The war on crime was fought with guns and pens, movies and legislation, radio and government hearings. All of these methods illuminate this period of state transformation and perceptions of that emergent state, in the years of the first New Deal. The study of the creation of G-men and gangsters as cultural heroes in this period not only explores the Depression-era obsession with crime and celebrity, but it also lends insight on how citizens understood a nation undergoing large political and social changes.
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