| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-244) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- History.
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United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
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History. |
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Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972.
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Hoover, John Edgar, 1895-1972. |
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Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. |
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United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
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New Deal, 1933-1939. |
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Criminal investigation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Criminal investigation. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Crime -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Crime. |
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Crime -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Crime -- Government policy. |
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Criminal investigation in mass media -- History -- 20th century.
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Criminal investigation in mass media. |
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Crime in mass media -- History -- 20th century.
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Crime in mass media. |
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Crime in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Crime in popular culture. |
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New Deal, 1933-1939.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Potter, Claire Bond, 1958- War on crime. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1998 0813524865 (DLC) 97022311 (OCoLC)37155755 |
| ISBN |
0585116393 (electronic book) |
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9780585116396 (electronic book) |
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0813524865 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0813524873 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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