Inventing the Public Enemy The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934

Name: Inventing the Public Enemy The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934
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ISBN: 9780226732183

ISBN-10: 0226732185

ISBN-13: 9780226732183

Edition: 1996

Authors: David E. Ruth

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David Ruth shows how the gangster in the 1920s and 30s was less real than history paints him, and more a media creation to help America come to terms with the changes occurring as it became a consumerist society.

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.87" wide x 9.25" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Gangster and Urban America 1. The Individual, Society, and the Uses of Crime 2. Criminal Businessmen 3. Dressed to Kill: Consumption, Style, and the Gangster 4. Bad Men and Dangerous Women 5. The Invention in the Flesh: Al Capone of Chicago Epilogue Notes Index