The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War America
(Part of the Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond Series)
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The term Cold War has long been associated with the "red menace" of communism at home and abroad. Yet as Lee Bernstein shows in this illuminating study, during the 1950s the threat posed by organized crime preoccupied Americans at least as much as the fear of communist subversion. At the beginning of the decade, the televised hearings of Senator Estes Kefauver's crime committee, focusing on colorful mob figures such as Lucky Luciano and...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1558497471
ISBN13:9781558497474
Release Date:October 2009
Publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
Length:252 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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