National Police Gazette and the Making of the Modern American Man.

By: Reel, GuyMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (258 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781403984708Subject(s): Crime and the press -- United States -- History | Masculinity -- United States -- History | National police gazette (New York, N.Y.) | Sensationalism in journalism -- United States -- History | Sex -- Press coverage -- United States -- History | Sex role -- United States -- History | Sports -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: National Police Gazette and the Making of the Modern American ManDDC classification: 305.31097309034 LOC classification: E171-E183.9D203.2-47Online resources: Click to View
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Cover -- The NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE and the Making of the Modern American Man, 1879-1906 -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Lives of the Felons -- 2 An Illustrated Journal of Sporting and Sensational Events -- 3 This Wicked World -- 4 Masculinities and the Manly Arts -- 5 Fox and Sullivan: The Brawl That Started It All -- 6 The Girl on the Police Gazette -- 7 Patron of Sport: Richard Kyle Fox (1846-1922) -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexNote:.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- The NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE and the Making of the Modern American Man, 1879-1906 -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Lives of the Felons -- 2 An Illustrated Journal of Sporting and Sensational Events -- 3 This Wicked World -- 4 Masculinities and the Manly Arts -- 5 Fox and Sullivan: The Brawl That Started It All -- 6 The Girl on the Police Gazette -- 7 Patron of Sport: Richard Kyle Fox (1846-1922) -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexNote:.

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.

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