The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America

by Lee Bernstein

Book Overview

The term Cold War has long been associated with the "red menace" of communism at home and abroad. Yet as Lee Bernstein shows in this illuminating study, during the 1950s the threat posed by organized crime preoccupied Americans at least as much as the fear of communist subversion. At the beginning of the decade, the televised hearings of Senator Estes Kefauver's crime committee, focusing on colorful mob figures such as Lucky Luciano and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558497471
• ISBN13: 9781558497474
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher