Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Whalen, Robert Weldon

Titel

Gangster City

Ist Teil von

• Murder Inc., and the Moral Life, 2016, p.54

Ort / Verlag

United States: Fordham University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• During the Jazz Age, New York City became what Patrick Downey calls a “Gangster City.”² New York not only had gangs, but the gangs also very nearly had the city. The gangs accelerated the transformation of New York from a flawed but vital democracy into something dangerous and sinister. Nothing about democracy is inevitable. As Francis Fukuyama writes, political orders can decay, and even prosperous democracies can fail.³ Gangsterism is both a symptom and a cause of this collapse. Gangsterism is a social, economic, and political phenomenon, but it also carries a distinctive ethos, and this ethos, what prosecutor Turkus