War on crime
bandits, G-men, and the politics of mass culture
by Claire Bond Potter
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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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Crime, Crime in mass media, Crime in popular culture, Criminal investigation, Criminal investigation in mass media, Government policy, History, New Deal, 1933-1939, United States, United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kriminalität, Geschichte, Bekämpfung, United states, federal bureau of investigation, Hoover, j. edgar (john edgar), 1895-1972, Criminal investigation, united states, Crime, united states, Mass media and crime, Histoire, Enquêtes criminelles, Enquêtes criminelles dans les médias, Criminalité dans les médias, Criminalité dans la culture populaire, New Deal, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Criminology, États-Unis. Federal Bureau of Investigation, États-UnisPeople
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War on crime: bandits, G-men, and the politics of mass culture
1998, Rutgers University Press
in English
0813524865 9780813524863
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-244) and index.
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