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.
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.
Robert Weldon Whalen is Professor Emeritus of History at Queens University of Charlotte. His publications include Murder, Inc., and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York (Fordham); Sacred Spring: God and Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna; "Like Fire in Broomstraw": Southern Journalism and the Textile Strikes of 1929-1931; Assassinating Hitler: Ethics and Resistance in Nazi Germany; and Bitter Wounds: German Victims of the Great War.
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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
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
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