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Inventing the Public Enemy : The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934
Overview
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, pulp books and plays, and hundreds of Hollywood movies, the gangster was a compelling figure for Americans preoccupied with crime and the social turmoil it symbolized.
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- ISBN-13: 9780226732183
- ISBN-10: 0226732185
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: April 1996
- Dimensions: 9.05 x 6.02 x 0.46 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.65 pounds
- Page Count: 200
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