Robert Weldon Whalen

Murder, Inc., and the Moral Life

Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York

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Produktbeschreibung

Murder, Inc. and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York tells the story of the notorious 1930s Brooklyn gang nicknamed "Murder, Inc." Murder, Inc. is as well an extended moral reflection on the phenomenon of gangsters in general and the Murder, Inc. gang in particular.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780823271559
• ISBN-10: 0823271552
• Artikelnr.: 44521772

Autorenporträt

Robert Weldon Whalen

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations vii
List of Illustrations ix
List of Characters xi
Prologue: Naked City 1
1 Reel Gangsters-Mobsters and the Movies 13
2 Real Gangsters: Abe Reles and the Origins of Murder, Inc. 31
3 Gangster City 54
4 Fiorello La Guardia and the Cinema of Redemption 75
5 Gangbuster: Thomas Dewey and Imperfect Justice 97
6 Murder, Inc.: "I Got Used to It" 126
7 A Theater of Ethics: Mr. Arsenic and the Murder, Inc., Trials 157
8 Ethics of Ambiguity: The Canary Could Sing but Couldn't Fly 185
Epilogue: "That Dangerous and Sad City of the Imagination" 209
Acknowledgments 217
Notes 219
Bibliography 253
Index 259