Violent Men

Elliott J. Gorn is the Joseph A. Gagliano Chair in American Urban History at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author and editor of multiple books on urban and American culture, including 'Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One (2009)' and 'Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till (2018).'

• Introduction; 1. 'Gouge and bite, pull hair and scratch': the social significance of fighting in the Southern backcountry; 2.'Good-bye boys, I die a true American': homicide, nativism, and working-class culture in Antebellum America; 3. 'Love, shame and blood': the National Police Gazette and the culture of spectacle; 4. The Manassa Mauler and the fighting marine: an interpretation of the Dempsey–Tunney fights; 5. Re-membering John Dillinger; 6. 'No quarrel with them Vietcong': Muhammad Ali's Cold War; 7. The lynching of Emmett Till revisited; Afterword.