Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism - New Americanists - Sean McCann - Books - Duke University Press - 9780822325949 - December 6, 2000
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Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism - New Americanists


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Offers an account of the crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, the author contends that mid-twentieth-century American crime writers used the genre to confront and wrestle with many of the paradoxes and disappointments of New Deal liberalism.


384 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 6, 2000
ISBN13 9780822325949
Publishers Duke University Press
Pages 384
Dimensions 230 × 169 × 27 mm   ·   508 g

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