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Paperback Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism Book
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ISBN: 0822325942

ISBN13: 9780822325949

Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism

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In Gumshoe America Sean McCann offers a bold new account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, he 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. For these authors, the same contradictions inherent in liberal...

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