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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b12656963.
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 1945-".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-227) and index.".
- catalog description "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!"".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xi, 237 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Greatest menace.".
- catalog identifier "155849345X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Greatest menace.".
- catalog isPartOf "Culture, politics, and the cold war".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,".
- catalog relation "Greatest menace.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 1945-".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "364.1/06/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Cold War.".
- catalog subject "HV6446 .B47 2002".
- catalog subject "Organized crime United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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!"".
- catalog title "The greatest menace : organized crime in Cold War America / Lee Bernstein.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".