 | Murder Inc., and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia''s New York Subjects: Organized crime -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Gangsters -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Crime -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898–1951; Murder, Inc. and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York tells the story of the notorious 1930s Brooklyn gang nicknamed "Murder, Inc." Murder, Inc. is as well an extended moral reflection on the phenomenon of gangsters in general and the Murder, Inc. gang in particular. Whalen Robert Weldon : Robert Weldon Whalen is Carolyn G. and Sam H. McMahon Jr. Professor of History at Queens University of Charlotte. His publications include Sacred Spring: God and Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna ; "Like Fire in Broomstraw": Southern Journalism and the Textile Strikes of 1929-1931 ; and Assassinating Hitler: Ethics and Resistance in Nazi Germany .Robert Weldon Whalen is Carolyn G. and Sam H. McMahon Jr. Professor of History at Queens University of Charlotte. His publications include Sacred Spring: God and Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna ; "Like Fire in Broomstraw": Southern Journalism and the Textile Strikes of 1929-1931 ; and Assassinating Hitler: Ethics and Resistance in Nazi Germany . |
