Research Catalog

Title

Fighting organized crime : politics, justice, and the legacy of Thomas E. Dewey / Mary M. Stolberg.

Author

Stolberg, Mary M.

Publication

Boston : Northeastern University Press, c1995.

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Description

xi, 315 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"From Samuel Tilden's fight against Tammany Hall to George Bush's references to Willie Horton, politicians have routinely exploited issues of crime to achieve success at the polls. Nowhere has this been more evident than in New York City in the 1930s. Fighting Organized Crime brings to life the dramatic interplay between crime and politics in New York City during this period, and in the process provides the first major examination of how politicians manipulate the justice system for their own ends - all in all a colorful saga of major New York figures jockeying for headlines and political gain in their battles against notorious gangsters."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Dewey, Thomas E. 1902-1971
• Organized crime > New York > History > 20th century
• Public prosecutors > New York
• New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 1898-1951
• New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-305) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Setting the Stage -- Ch. 2. The Runaway Grand Jury -- Ch. 3. Thomas E. Dewey's Rise from Obscurity -- Ch. 4. Putting Theory into Practice -- Ch. 5. The Politics of Crime Fighting -- Ch. 6. Luciano: The Preliminaries -- Ch. 7. Luciano: The Trial -- Ch. 8. Fighting Labor Rackets -- Ch. 9. Reform Politics -- Ch. 10. Jimmy Hines and the End of Old Tammany.

ISBN

1555532454 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^95016702^//r96

OCLC

• 32468225
• SCSB-9976676

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library