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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784156103321

Autore

Reel Guy

Titolo

The National police gazette and the making of the modern American man, 1879-1906 [[electronic resource] /] / Guy Reel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

ISBN

1-349-53307-6

1-281-36606-4

9786611366063

9786611915957

1-4039-8470-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

The New Middle Ages

Disciplina

305.31097309/034

Soggetti

Masculinity - United States - History

Sex role - United States - History

Sensationalism in journalism - United States - History

Crime and the press - United States - History

Sports - United States - History

Sex - Press coverage - United States - History

Sports journalism - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of thesis (doctoral), Ohio University.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-244) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyzes the National Police Gazette, the racy New York City tabloid that gained an audience among men and boys of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Looking at how images of sex, crime, and sports reflected and shaped masculinities during this watershed era, this book amounts to a story of what it meant to be an American man at the beginning of the American Century.