Research Catalog

Title

Murder, Inc., and the moral life : gangsters and gangbusters in La Guardia's New York / Robert Weldon Whalen.

Author

Whalen, Robert Weldon, 1950-

Publication

New York : Empire State Editions, An imprint of Fordham University Press, [2016]

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Details

Description

xiii, 269 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Murder, Inc. and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York tells the story of the notorious 1930s Brooklyn gang nicknamed "Murder, Inc." Murder, Inc. is as well an extended moral reflection on the phenomenon of gangsters in general and the Murder, Inc. gang in particular"--

Subject

• 1898-1999
• Organized crime > New York > History > 20th century
• Gangsters > New York > History > 20th century
• Crime > New York > History > 20th century
• HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
• TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
• Crime
• Gangsters
• Organized crime
• New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951
• New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- List of Characters -- Prologue. Naked City -- Ch. 1. Reel Gangsters -- Mobsters and the Movies -- Ch. 2. Real Gangsters: Abe Reles & the Origins of Murder, Inc. -- Ch. 3. Gangster City -- Ch. 4. Fiorello La Guardia and the Cinema of Redemption -- Ch. 5. Gangbuster: Thomas Dewey and Imperfect Justice -- Ch. 6. Murder, Inc. "I Got Used to It." -- Ch. 7. A Theater of Ethics: Mr. Arsenic and the Murder, Inc. Trials -- Ch. 8. Ethics of Ambiguity: The Canary Could Sing but Couldn't Fly -- Epilogue. "That Dangerous and Sad City of the Imagination" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780823271559 (hardback)
• 0823271552 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2016014319

OCLC

935989278

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library