Murder, Inc., and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York

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.

Author: Robert Weldon Whalen
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 09/04/2018
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780823282739

About the Author
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.