02561nam a22004814a 4500 EBC1167499 MiAaPQ 20250821124642.0 m o d | cr cnu|||||||| 080905s2000 ncu ob 001 0 eng d 9780822380566 (electronic bk.) 9780822325802 (print) (MiAaPQ)EBC1167499 (Au-PeEL)EBL1167499 (CaPaEBR)ebr10236531 (CaONFJC)MIL290349 (OCoLC)841912953 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ PS374.D4 M38 2000 McCann, Sean, 1962- 506327 Gumshoe America [electronic resource] : hard-boiled crime fiction and the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism / Sean McCann. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2000. viii, 370 p. New Americanists Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-364) and index. Uncivil society: hard-boiled crime fiction and the idea of a democratic culture -- 1. Constructing Race Williams: the Klan and the making of hard-boiled crime fiction -- 2. "Mystic rigmarole": Dashiell Hammett and the realist critique of liberalism -- 3. The pulp writer as vanishing American: Raymond Chandler's decentralist imagination -- 4. Letdown artists: paperback noir and the procedural republic -- 5. Tangibles: Chester Himes and the slow death of New Deal populism -- Conclusion: beyond us, yet ourselves. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. Detective and mystery stories, American History and criticism. 506328 Politics and literature United States History 20th century. 506329 American fiction 20th century History and criticism. 506330 Liberalism United States History 20th century. 506331 Political fiction, American History and criticism. 506332 Noir fiction, American History and criticism. 506333 New Deal, 1933-1939. 506334 Crime in literature. 506335 Electronic books. 35142 ProQuest (Firm) 506336 ProQuest (Firm) e-Duke books scholarly collection. 506337 New Americanists. 506338 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kuct-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1167499 Click to View 301261 301261