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Inventing the Public Enemy : The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934
Inventing the Public Enemy The Gangster in American Culture 19181934
Author: David E. Ruth
In this richly detailed account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. The subject of innumerable newspaper and magazine articles, scores of novels, and hundreds of Hollywood movies, the gangster was a compelling figure for Americans preoccupied with crime and the social turmoil...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226732176
ISBN-10: 0226732177
Publication Date: 4/15/1996
Pages: 200
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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