The American way of crime /

An unconventional history of the United States traces crime in America from the Puritans through Watergate and considers the special-interest groups who have at one time or another defined what is legal and what is not.

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Main Author: Browning, Frank, 1946-
Other Authors: Gerassi, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Putnam, 1980.
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245 1 4 |a The American way of crime /  |c Frank Browning, John Gerassi. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Crime in the colonies -- Harmony vs. blasphemy -- Common bawds and praying Indians -- Poor witches, prosperous devils -- Pirates and profiteers -- Counterfeiters and regulators -- Convicts, concubines, and corrupt officials -- Smugglers and conspirators -- Crime in the New Republic -- Poverty, property, and prisons -- Gangs, goons, and ward heelers -- Desperation on the borderlands -- The crimes of slave power -- The crimes of crime prevention -- The price and profit of war -- Crime in the expanding nation -- White terror and "honest graft" -- Law vs. justice -- Family feuds, cattle wars, and gunslingers -- Red, yellow, black -- Shady ladies -- The big apple -- Crime in the superstate -- Chicago : no quarter, either way -- 1919 -- The fruits of temperance -- The boondock underworld -- The guns of Dearborn -- Corporations and conspiracies -- The crime regulators -- Organized but also institutionalized -- The law of the streets, dead end. 
520 |a An unconventional history of the United States traces crime in America from the Puritans through Watergate and considers the special-interest groups who have at one time or another defined what is legal and what is not. 
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