National Police Gazette and the Making of the Modern American Man, 1879-1906

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National Police Gazette and the Making of the Modern American Man, 1879-1906 is written by G. Reel and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1403984700 (ISBN 10) and 9781403984708 (ISBN 13).

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.