City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield

by Robert Sklar

Book Overview

Often presented as a gangster, newspaper reporter, or private eye, the "city boy" seemed the quintessential product of urban America, although he was more a model for his audience than a mirror of social actuality. While blending the stories of the professional and political lives of Cagney, Bogart, and Garfield into one fascinating narrative, Robert Sklar probes the cultural forces that produced this vivid cultural icon and examines its power over...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691047952
• ISBN13: 9780691047959
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"