| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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HardBoiled: WorkingClass Readers and Pulp Magazines. By Erin A. Smith. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000. xiv, 215 pp. Cloth, $64.50, ISBN 1-56639-768-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-56639-769-3.)

Erin A. Smith has produced an informative account of how hardboiled detective fiction both reflected and compensated for the gender, class, and racial anxieties of its white, male, and workingclass readership in the period between the wars. Examining littleknown contributors to pulp magazines such as Black Mask as well as canonical writers in the genre such as Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler and deploying a theoretical apparatus drawn from Michel de Certeau, Judith Butler, Pierre Bourdieu, and David Roediger, Smith makes various inferences about that readership. . . .

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