The Resource The greatest menace : organized crime in Cold War America, Lee Bernstein
The greatest menace : organized crime in Cold War America, Lee Bernstein
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- Summary
- Recreating in detail the events and instigators of a near-paranoid public attention to the Italian Mafia during the Cold War era. Among the topics are the televised hearings of Estes Kefauver's crime committee, the formation of local crime committees, the role of J. Edgar Hoover and others in fostering an atmosphere of ethnic discrimination and suspicion, the trials of Lucky Luciano, and the role of television shows like The Untouchables and Dragnet to reaffirm notions of civic obligations to fight crime
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 237 pages
- Contents
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- Prologue: Vestal, New York, November 1957
- Organized crime as an American way of life: Mafia stories and ethnicity
- Capone's old town: housing desegregation and the middle-class ideal in Cicero, Illinois
- "Cruising the urban inferno": professional and popular views of organized crime
- "An all-star television revue": TV, the Mafia, and the Kefauver Crime Committee
- "The proper act of citizenship": local crime committees and the response to organized crime
- The man in the pin-striped suit: Lucky Luciano and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
- Unholy alliances: The Senate Rackets Committee, the Teamsters, and labor politics
- From The untouchables to "La Cosa Nostra": Italian American perceptions of the Mafia
- Conclusion: "Inside truth about crime!! Police facts!"
- Isbn
- 9781558493452
- Label
- The greatest menace : organized crime in Cold War America
- Title
- The greatest menace
- Title remainder
- organized crime in Cold War America
- Statement of responsibility
- Lee Bernstein
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Recreating in detail the events and instigators of a near-paranoid public attention to the Italian Mafia during the Cold War era. Among the topics are the televised hearings of Estes Kefauver's crime committee, the formation of local crime committees, the role of J. Edgar Hoover and others in fostering an atmosphere of ethnic discrimination and suspicion, the trials of Lucky Luciano, and the role of television shows like The Untouchables and Dragnet to reaffirm notions of civic obligations to fight crime
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bernstein, Lee
- Dewey number
- 364.1/06/0973
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV6446
- LC item number
- .B47 2002
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Culture, politics, and the cold war
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Organized crime
- Cold War
- United States
- Label
- The greatest menace : organized crime in Cold War America, Lee Bernstein
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-227) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: Vestal, New York, November 1957 -- Organized crime as an American way of life: Mafia stories and ethnicity -- Capone's old town: housing desegregation and the middle-class ideal in Cicero, Illinois -- "Cruising the urban inferno": professional and popular views of organized crime -- "An all-star television revue": TV, the Mafia, and the Kefauver Crime Committee -- "The proper act of citizenship": local crime committees and the response to organized crime -- The man in the pin-striped suit: Lucky Luciano and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics -- Unholy alliances: The Senate Rackets Committee, the Teamsters, and labor politics -- From The untouchables to "La Cosa Nostra": Italian American perceptions of the Mafia -- Conclusion: "Inside truth about crime!! Police facts!"
- Control code
- 49226346
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xi, 237 pages
- Isbn
- 9781558493452
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2002024571
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The greatest menace : organized crime in Cold War America, Lee Bernstein
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-227) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: Vestal, New York, November 1957 -- Organized crime as an American way of life: Mafia stories and ethnicity -- Capone's old town: housing desegregation and the middle-class ideal in Cicero, Illinois -- "Cruising the urban inferno": professional and popular views of organized crime -- "An all-star television revue": TV, the Mafia, and the Kefauver Crime Committee -- "The proper act of citizenship": local crime committees and the response to organized crime -- The man in the pin-striped suit: Lucky Luciano and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics -- Unholy alliances: The Senate Rackets Committee, the Teamsters, and labor politics -- From The untouchables to "La Cosa Nostra": Italian American perceptions of the Mafia -- Conclusion: "Inside truth about crime!! Police facts!"
- Control code
- 49226346
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xi, 237 pages
- Isbn
- 9781558493452
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2002024571
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
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