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(Re)Model(ed) Towns and the Remodeling of American Ideology: The Expansion of Middle-Class Hegemony in Allan Pinkerton's The Model Town and the Detectives and Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest
Because their texts reflect their culture's desire to see America as a middle-class society, Pinkerton and Hammett implicitly argue that the middle class should provide the "moral and cultural leadership" that Antonio Gramsci calls hegemony.3 Hegemony means that a given class can control the master metaphors through which a nation conceptualizes itself. According to Pinkerton, the village was a model because "the citizens were generally of the more respectable class of society, and the appearance of the town was evidence of a high state of thriftand prosperity" (21). [...]they saw themselves as developing a "habitual resort to terms of measurable cause and effect" combined with "skepticism of what is only conventionally valid"; these attributes are the sine qua non of the trained expert (Veblen, Theory 309 -10, 323). According to Erin Smith, fans of the Op stories were "white, working-class men" who equated practical training with economic and social advancement (10; 11).