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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Browning, Frank, 1946-
Other Authors: Gerassi, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Putnam, 1980.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.