Gumshoe America Hard Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise & Fall of New Deal Liberalism

"McCann brilliantly shows how depictions of detectives and deadbeats were at one and the same time struggles over the terms of New Deal liberalism/postwar Keynesianism and inquiries into the cultural office of popular narrative.Gumshoe Americaought to earn McCann a visible and enduring place as a premier scholar of popular American writing and an exponent of original ideas about literary value, U.S. cultural politics, and the ruses of representation in a variety of American cultural locations."-Eric Lott, author ofLove and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working ClassMcCann, Sean is the author of 'Gumshoe America Hard Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise & Fall of New Deal Liberalism' with ISBN 9780822325949 and ISBN 0822325942.