Whalen Murder, Inc., and the Moral Life

Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8232-7157-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whalen, Robert Weldon

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Whalen Robert Weldon:
Robert Weldon Whalen is Carolyn G. and Sam H. McMahon Jr. Professor of History at Queens University of Charlotte. His publications include Sacred Spring: God and Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna; “Like Fire in Broomstraw”: Southern Journalism and the Textile Strikes of 1929–1931; and Assassinating Hitler: Ethics and Resistance in Nazi Germany.Robert Weldon Whalen is Carolyn G. and Sam H. McMahon Jr. Professor of History at Queens University of Charlotte. His publications include Sacred Spring: God and Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna; “Like Fire in Broomstraw”: Southern Journalism and the Textile Strikes of 1929–1931; and Assassinating Hitler: Ethics and Resistance in Nazi Germany.