Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism (New Americanists)

"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 ClassSean McCann is the author of 'Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism (New Americanists)', published 2000 under ISBN 9780822325802 and ISBN 0822325802.