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Angus McLaren Playboys and Mayfair Men (Hardback)
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- Publication Name
- Playboys and Mayfair Men
- Title
- Playboys and Mayfair Men
- Subtitle
- Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London
- ISBN-10
- 1421423472
- EAN
- 9781421423470
- ISBN
- 9781421423470
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Release Date
- 11/12/2017
- Release Year
- 2017
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 152mm
- UPC
- 9781421423470
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Topic
- True Crime, Zoology
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Item Weight
- 499g
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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In December 1937, four respectable young men in their twenties, all products of elite English public schools, conspired to lure to the luxurious Hyde Park Hotel a representative of Cartier, the renowned jewelry firm. There, the Mayfair men brutally bludgeoned diamond salesman Etienne Bellenger and made off with eight rings that today would be worth approximately half a million pounds. Such well-connected young people were not supposed to appear in the prisoner's dock at the Old Bailey. Not surprisingly, the popular newspapers had a field day responding to the public's insatiable appetite for news about the upper-crust rowdies and their unsavory pasts. In Playboys and Mayfair Men, Angus McLaren recounts the violent robbery and sensational trial that followed. He uses the case as a hook to draw the reader into a revelatory exploration of key interwar social issues from masculinity and cultural decadence to broader anxieties about moral decay. In his gripping depiction of Mayfair's celebrity high life, McLaren describes the crime in detail, as well as the police investigation, the suspects, their trial, and the aftermath of their convictions. He also* examines the origins and cultural meanings of the playboy-the male 1930s equivalent of the 1920s flapper; * includes in his cast of characters such well-known figures as Noel Coward, Evelyn Waugh, the Churchills, Robert Graves, Oswald Mosley, and Edward VIII; and* convincingly links disparate issues such as divorce reform, corporal punishment, effeminacy, and fascism. The trial is fascinating, not simply because of its four young louts but because it revealed for the first time in the media troubling aspects of British society which had escaped serious scrutiny. An original and exciting cultural history of 1930s Britain, this innovative book and the exploits of its dissolute playboys will appeal to true-crime readers and historians alike.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13
9781421423470
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16046399926
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Book Title
Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
True Crime, Zoology
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
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Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
499g
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Gender Issues
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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