War on Crime : Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture, Paperback by...

Description: War on Crime : Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture, Paperback by Potter, Claire Bond, ISBN 0813524873, ISBN-13 9780813524870, Brand New, Free shipping in the US War on Crime revises the history of the New Deal transformation and suggests a new model for political history-one 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 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. Anxieties about crime today have become a familiar route for the creation of new government agencies and the extension of state authority. It is important to remember the original war on crime in the 1930s-and the opportunities it afforded to New Dealers and established bureaucrats like J. Edgar Hoover-as scholars grapple with the ways states assert influence over populations, local authority, and party politics while they pursue goals such as reducing popular violence and protecting private property.

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Book Title: War on Crime : Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture

Number of Pages: 272 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: War on Crime : Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Publication Year: 1998

Subject: Media Studies, United States / 20th Century, General, Law Enforcement, Popular Culture, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Criminology

Item Height: 0.7 in

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 14.9 Oz

Subject Area: Political Science, True Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

Author: Claire Bond Potter

Item Length: 9 in

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback