Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934

by David E. E. Ruth (Author)

• Used

  Illustrated
  1996

  $3.45

  In this account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other invented gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. It shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns and ideas about what would sell.

• New

  Illustrated
  1996

  $34.63

  In this account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other invented gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. It shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns and ideas about what would sell.