The greatest menace: organized crime in cold war America

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 f...

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1. Verfasser: Bernstein, Lee (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amherst, Mass. University of Massachusetts Press 2002
Schriftenreihe:Culture, politics, and the cold war
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]227) and index
Beschreibung:xi, 237 p. 25 cm
ISBN:155849345X

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