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

by Claire Bond Potter

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813524873
• ISBN13: 9780813524870
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"