Alcatraz: The Gangster Years Paperback - 2009
by David a. Ward; Contribution by Gene Kassebaum
From the rear cover
"Ward has collected the most impressive documentation anywhere on the workings of a prison. A unique and wonderful work of sociology and history."--Howard Becker, author of Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance and Art Worlds
"This groundbreaking history of the country's most notorious prison is the first to give an in-depth analysis of the interaction between the guards and the prisoners. Ward captures the Alcatraz experience with the accuracy of someone who has practically been there and lays to rest many of the myths that have grown up around the prison. No longer will the story-tellers be able to describe the inmates as 'the worst of the worst' without qualification. Their individual stories come alive as the author records the varied life experiences that brought them to Alcatraz and describes their coping mechanisms. A unique and fascinating study."--Morton Sobell, Alcatraz Inmate #AZ699 1950-1963, author of On Doing Time
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- Title Alcatraz: The Gangster Years
- Author David a. Ward; Contribution by Gene Kassebaum
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 584
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date 2009-05-19
- ISBN 9780520265967 / 0520265963
- Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
- Dimensions 8.7 x 5.6 x 1.5 in (22.10 x 14.22 x 3.81 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Northern California
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Locality: San Francisco, California
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008021232
- Dewey Decimal Code 365.979
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