The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became Our Gang

by Christian K. Messenger

Chris Messenger is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction: Hawthorne to Faulkner and Sport and the Spirit of Play in Contemporary American Fiction; and is the coauthor, with Chet Walker, of Long Time Coming: A Black Athlete's Coming-of-Age in America.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791453588
• ISBN13: 9780791453582
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"