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Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934
In this richly detailed account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. The subject of innumerable newspaper and magazine articles, scores of novels, and hundreds of Hollywood movies, the gangster was a compelling figure for Americans preoccupied with crime and the social turmoil it symbolized. Ru...more
Paperback, 200 pages
Published
April 15th 1996
by University of Chicago Press
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