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War on crime : bandits, G-men, and the politics of mass culture / Claire Bond Potter.
- Title
- War on crime : bandits, G-men, and the politics of mass culture / Claire Bond Potter.
- Author
- Potter, Claire Bond, 1958-
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HV8144.F43 P67 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 250 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Hoover, J. Edgar 1895-1972
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation > History
- Criminal investigation > United States > History > 20th century
- Crime > United States > History > 20th century
- Crime > History > United States > 20th century
- Criminal investigation in mass media > United States > History > 20th century
- Crime in mass media > History > 20th century
- Crime in popular culture > United States > History > 20th century
- New Deal, 1933-1939
- Criminal investigation in mass media > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-244) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prohibition, crime, and federal policing -- Scientific policing, masculinity, and bureau reform -- The making of a crime wave -- Romance, bandit identity, and the rise of celebrity bandits -- Kidnapping, federal policing, and the role of the public in the war on crime -- John Dillinger as political actor -- The Barker-Karpis Gang, surveillance, and the victory of federal policing.
- ISBN
- 0813524865 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813524873 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^97022311^//r98
- OCLC
- 37155755
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library