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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.

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/04/1996
      ISBN13: 9780226732183, 978-0226732183
      ISBN10: 0226732185

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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