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War on crime : bandits, G-men, and the politics of mass culture / Claire Bond Potter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585116393
  • 9780585116396
  • 0813560179
  • 9780813560175
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: War on crime.DDC classification:
  • 364.973 21
LOC classification:
  • HV8144.F43 P67 1998eb
Online resources:
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-244) and index.

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.

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.

Print version record.

English.

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