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

Download or read book National Police Gazette and the Making of the Modern American Man, 1879-1906 written by G. Reel and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-04-16 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.