Murder, Inc., and the Moral Life : : Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York / / Robert Weldon Whalen.
In 1940 and 1941 a group of ruthless gangsters from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood became the focus of media frenzy when they—dubbed “Murder Inc.,” by New York World-Telegram reporter Harry Feeney—were tried for murder. It is estimated that collectively they killed hundreds of people during a r...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- List of Characters
- Prologue: Naked City
- 1 Reel Gangsters—Mobsters and the Movies
- 2 Real Gangsters: Abe Reles and the Origins of Murder, Inc.
- 3 Gangster City
- 4 Fiorello La Guardia and the Cinema of Redemption
- 5 Gangbuster: Thomas Dewey and Imperfect Justice
- 6 Murder, Inc.: “I Got Used to It”
- 7 A Theater of Ethics: Mr. Arsenic and the Murder, Inc., Trials
- 8 Ethics of Ambiguity: The Canary Could Sing but Couldn’t Fly
- Epilogue: “That Dangerous and Sad City of the Imagination”
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index